IT firm loses Rs 1.12L to online fraudsters

A 34-year-old businessman has registered a criminal complaint against an unknown person for getting unauthorised access to his company's wallet and transferring Rs 1.12 lakh in different bank accounts.

According to Parksite police, the complainant runs a mobilebased application that provides IT services and is resided in Vikhroli.

The complainant's company has its application and engineers in software and hardware fields are connected with this application. "If any individual or a company faces any IT related issues, then they lodged their complaint on the application, after which the application connects the party to the nearby engineer who provides a solution for the related issues. After the problem is resolved, the party or customer either makes payment to the engineer directly or the complainant's company for the services provided," said a police officer.

The company has appointed coordinators for the smooth functioning of the company, who are paid by the company from its account. The complainant said he found out that from April 16 till April 28, Rs 1.12 lakh were transferred to at least six different bank accounts.

Since the beneficiary account holders were not coordinators of the company, the victim realised that someone got unauthorised access to the wallet of the company's application and had fraudulently transferred the money. The victim approached the police and lodged a complaint.

The victim realised that someone got unauthorised access to company’s wallet application and transferred the money