Jaipur: City Police on Friday arrested two men from Lucknow who postponed a city based company by forging an email address and letterhead to cheatly transferring Rs 49 lakh from a bank account.
DCP (crime), Amrita Duhan said that the police had blocked RS 28 lakh from the transfer to the defendant’s bank account immediately after FIR was archived.
Both of the defendants were registered by police as Tausib Ahmad (23), and Kunal Gupta (28), both Lucknow residents.
“The defendant made an identical email address from the company to send an email to the bank, seek urgent money transfers in various bank accounts.
They specifically sent these emails at around 5:30 a.m.
when the bank was ready to close for that day,” said Tuhi .
He said that the defendant also attached fake letterhead from the company in an email sent to a different bank.
The crime branch will also examine how large transactions are processed progressively the right verification.
While the police have not ruled out the possibility of alleged collusion, Duhan said the investigation was ongoing to determine whether the bank contacted a verified cellphone number before giving sanctions a large number of transactions.
This might be his first incident reported in Jaipur, where email and leading company documents were emulated by scammers to facilitate a large amount of money to be channeled through a different bank account.
The police also learned that the defendant moved from the bank’s bank account and moved it to another account in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
According to Duhan, the defendant withdraws money in various stages in a different way.
One of the accused, Tausib, was previously arrested by police Shastri Nagar in a similar scamming case.
The crime branch said that the defendant also postponed a company under the Sanganer Sangangan police station and delayed RS 23 lakh.
Duhan said that the defendant was arrested from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh and investigations were underway to determine their relationship in other digital heist.