Ahmedabad: A 51-year-old accountant at a private finance company in Ellisbridge was allegedly fooled into transferring Rs 95.8 lakh by a cyberfraudster impersonating his boss. The accountant had joined the company six months ago and was responsible for fund transfers. On July 6, he received WhatsApp messages from a number saved under his boss’s name. The number also carried the boss’s photograph as its display picture.The fraudster allegedly sent him a bank account number and instructed him to make the transfer. Believing the messages to be from his boss, the accountant did as told without independently verifying the instruction, police said.The fraudster messaged again the next day, allegedly asking to transfer another Rs 1.26 crore, this time to a different bank account. The accountant approached his boss in office to confirm this instruction and came to know that the messages for the Rs 95.8 lakh transfer were a con.The company approached cybercrime police, who registered a case against an unidentified person. Police suspect that the fraudster may have gained access to the company’s computer or mobile phone and used the boss’s identity, photograph and a number saved under his name to deceive the accountant.
