An Andheri-based company, which is in the business of manufacturing refractory glass and buys the raw material from China, has become the latest victim of email spoofing and lost nearly Rs 10 lakh to suspected Chinese scammers.

Andheri police have registered an FIR and its cyber wing is investigating the complaint filed by Refractory Shapes Pvt Ltd In its complaint. The company said that it has been buying raw material from China for the past 20 years. Since August 2020, its supplier has been Triple H China Limited, the complainant said. On May 10, 2022, Refractory placed an order for 54,000 kg of white tabular alumina worth Rs 32,60,328 and the correspondence took place via “official email IDs of both our [export@refshape.com] and the Chinese company [baile@huaomaterial.com]”.