A manager of a multinational institution was duped of ₹7.5 lakh aft a cyber fraudster, posing arsenic his company’s CEO, tricked him into buying Apple store acquisition vouchers.
Baed connected a ailment filed by Abhishek Mitra, the Whitefield Division Cyber Crime Police person registered an FIR connected Friday charging the accused nether the IT Act, 2000, and besides nether sections 318 (cheating) and 319 (cheating by impersonation) of the BNS, 2023, for further investigation.
In his complaint, Mitra said that helium had received a WhatsApp connection from an chartless fig belonging to the accused, who posed arsenic the CEO of his institution and claimed that helium was successful the mediate of a gathering successful the U.S. The accused reportedly asked Mitra to acquisition Apple store vouchers.
Without verifying further, Mitra followed the instructions and purchased 80 Apple store vouchers online and shared the codification with the accused. The fraud came to airy erstwhile the accused allegedly told Mitra helium had not received immoderate specified connection with codes.
