Bank duped of ₹9.9 lakh by poser customer in Pune

PUNE: An unidentified person was booked for cheating a bank employee into transferring money from one of the bank customer’s accounts to an unidentified account by personating the original customer

PUNE: An unidentified person was booked for cheating a bank employee into transferring money from one of the bank customer’s accounts to an unidentified account by personating the original customer.

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“The man was pretending to be the CEO of a company which has an account in the bank. The complaint was with the cyber crime cell and now we are investigating it. The real account holder has applied for the money to be returned to him as it was deducted without his knowledge or consent,” said inspector (crime) Sajay Mogale of Deccan police station.

The incident happed in July 2020 when the man wrote an email to the bank employee claiming to be the CEO of a company and in need of money.

Through an email ID, the suspect told the bank that he did not have the cheque book as it was not delivered due to the lockdown. Thereafter, in two transactions of RTGS, a total of ₹9,93,530 was transferred from his account to the suspect’s account.

When the original account holder realised that money was deducted, he told the bank and the bank lodged a complaint.

A case under Sections 419 (personation) and 420 (cheating) of Indian Penal Code along with Sections 66(c) and 66(d) of Information Technology Act was registered at Deccan police station.