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Fraudsters posing as senior official dupe accountant into Rs1.5cr transfer

Fraudsters posing as senior official dupe accountant into Rs1.5cr transfer
Fraudsters posing as senior official send accountant WhatsApp message, induce him to transfer Rs 1.5 cr · theprint.in

Some bad people sent a message on WhatsApp to a person whose job is to look after a company's money.

The message pretended to be from a senior director of the company, like a big boss.

The bad people tricked the accountant into sending a very large amount of money, Rs 1.5 crore.

A crore is a very big number, so this was a huge amount of money.

The company is linked to a businessman and politician named Sanjay Pathak.

It happened in a city called Katni.

The police are looking into what happened.

A senior police officer named Abhinay Vishwakarma told people about the fraud on Thursday.

Tricks like this, where people pretend to be someone they are not to get money, are called cyber fraud.

Key facts

Company affected
A company linked to BJP MLA and mining baron Sanjay Pathak
Amount transferred
Rs 1.5 crore
Fraud method
WhatsApp message impersonating a senior director
Location
Katni
Time of incident
Between 2 pm and 3 pm on Wednesday
Confirmed by
Katni Superintendent of Police Abhinay Vishwakarma
Police announcement
Thursday, August 13

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