Coimbatore man duped of Rs 5 lakh by imposter; probe on

COIMBATORE: An unidentified person impersonated a chief executive officer (CEO) of a private firm and duped one of its employees of 4.8 lakh. The city cybercrime police said they had registered a case against the unidentified person based on a complaint that M J Raphael, 57, of Kathiravan Garden at Singanallur, lodged with them on Thursday.
“He received an email with the name of A G K Karunakaran, CEO of his company, on March 14, requesting him to transfer 5 lakh to the former’s bank account. Raphael was asked not to disturb the CEO with phone calls, as he was in a meeting. The bank account number was mentioned in the mail itself,” a police officer said.
An unsuspecting Raphael immediately transferred 4.8 lakh to the bank account number mentioned in the mail. “Later, he came to know that the mail wasn’t from his CEO.
Based on his complaint, we have registered a case against the unidentified person under Section 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 66 D (punishment for cheating by personation by using computer resource) of the Information Technology Act. Further investigation is on,” the officer said.