Bhubaneswar: Mimicing high-ranking officials from London-based pharmaceutical companies based in London, a group of unidentified cyber criminals to deceive a cuttack-based entrepreneur and his partner almost Rs 35 Lakh.
The problem was revealed after the victim, identified as Nagen Barik, filed a complaint with a cyber police station from Crime Branch in Cuttack on Wednesday.
The police have registered the case below Section 419 (cheating on personation), 420 (cheating), 465 (forgery), 468 (forgery for cheating purposes), 471 (using fake documents to become genuine) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy (conspiracy Criminal)) from the IPC and other relevant parts of the action against several people, who received Rs 35 Lakh in a different phase in their bank account.
According to the crime branch source, two fraudsters sent a letter to Barik on August 11 2020 by introducing himself as Simon Collins and Robert Wood.
Collins and Wood allegedly submitted themselves as a business development manager and Director of Britannia Pharmaceutical Limited England.
Because biodiques are related to pharmaceutical seeds, the exchangers lure them into their traps and assert it to buy high-quality medicinal seeds from their company.
Imposter offers Rs 58,200 per pack of seeds.
They share telephone numbers and details of their representative banks in West Bengal.
Without verifying details, the baric walked to the trap and transferred RS 58.200 to account on August 12, 2020.
He did not stop there.
After being caused by foreigners he never knew, Barik and Mitra Praveen Kumar allegedly struck more business agreements with them and transferred around Rs 35 Lakh to Conmen.
They realize fraud when they do not accept products from the company.
Maya’s crime continues the massive awareness campaign held by the police and the government regularly.
In the past few days, the branch of state crime has been flooded with several cases of fraud.
While cyber criminals cheatedly pulled Rs 10.10 Lakh from a bank account of a wife of senior IPS officers, a coraput-based man who was lost around Rs 75 lakh for cyber criminals, which offered bonus insurance rs 1.5 crore.