For nearly 22 days, cyber fraudsters posed as a Thailand-based chemical supplier so convincingly that a Mumbai firm continued transferring payments without suspecting a scam. Using a fake email ID nearly identical to the original one, forged invoices, and fabricated bank details, the accused allegedly duped the firm of Rs 32 lakh in two transactions routed to a Dubai bank account, the cyber police said on Tuesday.

The businessman

The complainant works as an assistant manager (logistics) at the city-based company engaged in manufacturing and exporting guar gum powder — a thickening and stabilising agent widely used in the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic and oil drilling industries — to several countries.