Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (EP/RJP)

Udupi, Nov 25: In an addition to the prevalent cyber crimes and white collar frauds, a case has been registered at Manipal police station where the fraudsters have cheated a person named Louis D’Souza to the tune of Rs 1.13 crore.

The email account belonging to Louis D’Souza was hacked before the unknown fraudsters managed to steal money from his bank account.

Louis D’Souza is a Canada-based person who has a bank account at Syndicate Bank in Manipal.

As per the complaint, two transfers were made to his account from Canara Bank Katpady and ICICI bank totalling US$ 2,23,830.20 on January 15, 2014. On the same day a transfer of US$ 1,15,000 was made from his account to an account in Dubai National Bank. On October 27,2014, a transfer of US$ 70,000 was made from his Manipal account to an account in Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank. Both these transfers were executed based on two email requests from D’Souza’s email account.

On November 13, US$ 61,000 and Canadian dollars 9100 were transferred to Louis D’Souza’s account in Manipal. Then an email request was made to transfer money to a Bank of China account in Hong Kong. The bank officials got suspicious and assistant general manager from Syndicate Bank head office, Ramesh Nayak phoned D’Souza about the transfer request and learned that he had not made any such request.

Now the Syndicate Bank through the assistant general manager has complained to the Manipal police that an amount of Rs 1, 13, 42,937 was transferred to different accounts from D’Souza’s account by fraudulent means. Manipal police are investigating.