Pune: Online crooks duped a Khalumbre-based tissue paper manufacturing company of Rs 28.78 lakh by using spoofed emails. The fraud happened between Nov 11 and Dec 1 last year.
The company's officer had filed a complaint application with the cyber crime cell of the Pimpri Chinchwad police. After preliminary investigation, a case has been registered with the Mahalunge MIDC police under the relevant sections of the Information Technology Act. An officer from the Mahalunge MIDC police said that the company had ordered tissue papers from a supplier, whose name was used in the con, in Bangladesh.
"The crooks created fake bills in the name of the Bangladeshi supplier company. They emailed the bills through an email which was similar to that company's original email id," the officer said. "The crooks also shared the details of a bank account in the email and requested the complainant's company to make the payments," he said.
The officer said that the complainant transferred Rs 28.78 lakh to the bank account number. Later, he realised that it was not the Bangladeshi supplier's bank account.
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