Andheri firm pays Rs 17 lakh to fraudster who faked Chinese firm’s domain name
By Prempal Singh
Mumbai: A logistic firm in Andheri has been cheated approx Rs 17 lakh by an unknown person that created a dummy email account for firm’s business associate in China.
A cyber criminals offenses complaint has been entered by Trialliance Global Logistics Solutions which stated that the US $26,343 and the bill was sent by email and from Joyspeed Global Cargo Solution who’s business associate in China that provide the service from November to December last yr. The fraud sent an email on Dec 15 and the payment would be made by new bank account that would be happened eventually.
The genuine Chinese company from where fraud came in Andheri to settle the pending bill. On 18th Feb, the case was registered and the cyber criminal offenses provide technical support to crack the case.
The complaint states that “I went through the original email and found out that fraudster had used a fake email account of our business associate…”.
Thye genuine email domain name was xxxx@joyspeed.com while the dummy one was xxxx@joyspeed.dr.com. And the complaint was the new bank account did not raise any impression at his company’s end.
The law enforcement officials of Andheri said that the business exchange between two companies and committed the cyber criminals. The officer said that “It is not easy for an outsider to get hold of email accounts of the companies and know what payments are pending,”.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com