<img title="Cyrus Mistry" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2016/sep/Cyrus-Mistry.jpg" alt="Cyrus Mistry" /> Cyrus Mistry
Ever got a weird email from your boss? Top employees at Tata recently received a strange mail from the chairman, Cyrus Mistry (in pic above), asking them to transfer $4,500 to a bank account. Thankfully, before they bid adieu to their hard-earned money, one alert official realised it was a con.
The MRA Marg police and the Cyber Cell are on a hunt for a fraudster who sent a fake email under the name of the Tata Group chairman, Cyrus Mistry, to con employees into parting with their money.
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On Thursday, five employees from the Finance department at Tata received an odd email from their chairman, Cyrus Mistry, stating: &lsquo; Dear, We are coming up with a Project of Tata Group. Kindly, deposit 4500 US $ in a/ c no xxxx. This project should not get stopped due to financial crunch.&rsquo;
Fittingly, it was the chief ethics officer, Dr Mukund Rajan ( also brand custodian) who caught the lie. He was the first among the five to open the email and, right away, he realised that it was a hoax.
He informed Mistry that someone was impersonating him online and also passed on the details to the manager of the Finance department, Chetan Nange, who filed a complaint at the MRA Marg police station.
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&ldquo;We have provided all the details to police. We have never received such mails before in our organisation,&rdquo; said Nange.
The police registered an FIR under Sections 419, 420, 511 of the IPC, along with Section B B of the IT Act.
DCP ( Zone I) Dr Manoj Sharma said, &ldquo; We have registered a case against an unknown offender and are taking the help of the Cyber Cell to crack the case.&rdquo;
Tata says 
&ldquo;An unsuccessful attempt was made to fraudulently contact some Tata employees from a fake email ID. We have therefore filed an FIR with the police and an investigation is on to identify the perpetrator,&rdquo; said an official spokesperson for Tata.

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