Based on a complaint lodged by a French national, the cyber crime cell of the city police have blocked miscreants from withdrawing Rs. 10 lakh that they fraudulently attracted to their bank account from the victim’s firm, in Coimbatore. A case was registered in this connection on Wednesday.
The police said that the victim Benjamin Blanchard, is the operations manager of city-based Biogrow Substrates India Private Limited with its office on the Avinashi Road. The company entered into an agreement with Unique Roof Private Limited, a private construction company at Chinniyampalayam on Irugur Road, for construction of a building for Biogrow on Nallampalli to Poosaripatti Road, near Pollachi.
The complainant alleged that on November 24 he had received mail from the construction company’s email id, that the company had finished construction on a portion of the building and required Rs. 10 lakh to be immediately transferred to their account.
The email specified the bank account information, to which Blanchard transferred the money. However, after the transaction he received a phone call from the construction firm asking for payment. He learnt that the mail was not sent by the firm and that the money was transferred to a fraud account, attached to the branch of a leading nationalised bank near Ahmedabad, in Gujarat.
The victim approached the cyber crime police and the transaction was stopped through the zonal office of the bank that is located in Coimbatore. The police said that the account was frozen. Money will be refunded to the victim through court.
On receiving a complaint from Blanchard on Wednesday. the police registered a case under sections 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) of the Indian Penal Code and 66C (punishment for identity theft) and 66D (punishment for cheating by personation by using computer resource) of the Information Technology Act.
The police also wrote to the bank and froze the transaction. The police said that the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from which the fraudsters had hacked into the email of the construction firm was tracked to Nigeria. The police are trying to identify the persons behind the fraud. A team led by Inspector of the Cyber Crime Cell S. Muthumalai is investigating the case.
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