Hyderabad based company duped to the tune of Rs.7.5 lakhs by cyber criminals!
Cyber criminals have struck again and duped a Hyderabad based company to the tune of Rs.7.5 lakhs by creating a fake e-mail id and interacting with the company representatives. Through exchange of e-mails, the cyber criminals have earned the confidence of the company representatives.
According to the available information, in the past few days, a company by name ABR Organics located at Bagh Amberpet, Hyderabad was in negotiations with a China based company to finalise a business deal. As a part of this process, both the organisations were in touch through exchange of e-mails. At this stage, the cyber criminals have created a fake e-mail id of the Chinese organisation and through that fake e-maid id, communicated to ABR Organics that there was a change of their bank account.
In the process, the representatives of ABR Organics have transferred an amount of Rs.7.5 lakhs in to the bank account of the cyber criminals as per their e-mail communication. Later on only the ABR Organics representatives could realize that they were duped by the cyber criminals and lodged a complaint with the cyber Crime Police.