With the rise of online transactions, the incidence of cybercrime is also on the rise. Despite the efforts of the government or the bank, cyber gangs are finding new ways of online fraud. At that time, a total of Rs 2.39 crore was stolen online from the account of a business firm in Ahmedabad city. In just three hours, a second SIM card with the company’s official mobile number was issued and the gangsters transferred a total of Rs 2.39 crore from the bank account to another account. A complaint has been lodged at the Cyber Crime Police Station.
According to information received, Alkeshbhai Gangani, who lives in Makraba area of Ahmedabad, runs a company exporting rupees and yarn in Bodakdev area in partnership. To facilitate financial transactions, he activated net banking in the company’s bank account. Alkeshbhai registered his mobile number and his e-mail ID for financial transactions.
On Sunday, at around 5:45 pm, a signal went off in Alkeshbhai’s mobile. He immediately called the customer care of the service provider company. The reply from the front is that we have locked your seam since your call came. However, he did not say such a thing in the service provider company. He then closed the existing SIM and got a new SIM card.
Then the next day Alkeshbhai got a call from his partner informing him that a lot of transactions had taken place from the company’s bank account last night. While Alkeshbhai said that he had not done any transaction. Investigations at the bank revealed that a number of transactions had taken place by logging in with an email ID registered with the bank account. A total of Rs 2.29 crore was transferred from the bank account to different accounts through RTGS.
Alkeshbhai was able to freeze a transaction so that Rs 10 lakh was returned to the account. Alkeshbhai has lodged a complaint at the Cyber Crime Police Station. The Cyber Crime Police has registered a case of fraud and criminal conspiracy under the IPC. The perpetrator has not been identified yet.
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