Vadodara: When he was deceived by RS 31 Lakh a few days ago, the city-based businessman Ramesh Shah, a resident of Ellora Park, thought that he really kissed Goodbye his money.
However, the cybercrime cell city police helped him get his money back from Portuguese banks.
According to the police, Shah has bought raw materials from Schott, a German company, and should deposit RS 31 Lakh in their bank account as payment.
But on October 7, Shah received an email that told him that because of changes in the company’s global strategy, he had to deposit the number in their bank account.
Shah failed to notice that the email was a little different from the original ID of the German company.
The e-mail told Shah to deposit money in Caixa Geral De Dedósitos Braga’s Lisbon Branch in Portugal and not in the original bank account company in Germany.
He trusted the letter and hence transferring payments from the Bank of State Bank of India (SBI) account in October 8.
However, the German company sent an email to Shah which stated that they did not get payment.
Shah was surprised and when she asked at the company Mumbai branch, she learned that she was a victim of fraud.
Shah then approached the Cybercrime police on October 15 and the police immediately took action and sent an email to the Portuguese bank, the German branch of the SBI and Lisbon police.
“The money was stored in the Portuguese bank, but strangely the fraudsters were not interested.
The bank reversed the transaction and Shah to get the money back,” said Hardik Makadia, ACP (Cybercrime).
When asked how fraudsters managed to get the details of the Shah transaction with Schott and his e-mail ID, Makadia said, “It is possible that someone from the company or the client can be involved, or that the fraudster may have hacked the Shah Email ID.”