Being the lastest victim of email hacking and then losing rupees 37 lakhs, an international diamond firm owner and a resident of Malabar Hill has complaint to the police for being cheated, the matter has been under police investigations which is probing a Haryana link in the cyber crime.
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A diamond exporter,Sejal Savera, 40, the owner of Nikhil gems was cheated for 37 lakh rupees after the companies email was hacked and their client based in the United States of America was sent an email stating the company had changed their bank accounts and the deal amounts should now be transferred to a bank in Haryana.
The diamond and jewel export company that has clients in USA and Japan mostly communicates online with the clients abroad for sending quatations, bank details and information on dispatching the goods but recently one of the email account of the owner was sneaked into and a Los Angeles (LA) based client was sent an email informing that the bank transactions would be with a bank located in Haryana for which the client was also sent details of the bank account.
However when the goods were dispatched from Mumbai to LA the details of the goods were shared with the client and further the payment was done in the Haryana based bank account which actually did not belong to the company which is run by Sejal and her 21 year old daughter. On learning about the incident the victim researched and found out that there were several emails sent to the business clients and a part of advance payment was made by the LA client which was sent to the alleged hacker's account.
Advocate, Pankaj Bafna, the Victim's lawyer said, &ldquo;A few days later of dispatching the goods, my client informed me that there was an advance payment paid by an international client and she had shared details of a Bank located in Malabar Hill but the money was sent to another bank. She found that the email inbox had atleast 20 emails communicated across her business client stating that for future the new bank account details should be updated and the amount should be made in Haryana Bank. Accordingly the email spoofing was done for the fraud. We then registered an FIR in Malabar hill police station but the police is yet to reach a conclusion in the case."
"A case is registered under section 419 ( impersonating ) and 420 (cheating) of the IPC and sections of Information technology act. The investigations are underway," said a police official.

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