Hyderabad: Cyberabad cyber crime police arrested three people for hacking a trading company’s email and diverting funds with the help of Nigerian scammers.
Police said the suspects blocked the email account of the company and used another email to inform their customers about a new bank account to transfer funds.
Police said that around Rs 13 lakh was siphoned off by the suspects. The cops recovered Rs 10 lakh. The cyber crime team arrested the three suspects, Majid Salmani, Md. Iyaz, and Alyaz, from New Delhi.
Officials of RL Traders, based in Hyderabad, approached the police alleging that cash from their clients have been diverted to unknown bank accounts.
Police found the firm’s email ID was hacked by Nigerians and Indian scammers and they had mislead the company’s clients by sending them details of another bank account to transfer cash.
The arrested suspects gave their personal bank accounts and got the money transferred to it.
“After hacking the email of the trading company the suspects send emails from a bogus email ID to the clients saying that the company’s bank account has been changed. They gave a new account number and got the money transferred to it,” said a cyber crime official from Cyberabad.
The police is searching for another Nigerian suspect believed to be involved. He is absconding.
