Pune: Cybercrooks manipulated a finance manager (67) of a city-based engineering company into transferring Rs 54 lakh after posing as the director of the company in April.The finance manager filed an online complaint application. After preliminary investigations, a case was registered with the Pune cybercrime police on Thursday.Senior inspector Swapanali Shinde of the Pune cybercrime police told TOI that the complainant informed the police that the crooks posed as the company’s director and sent him a message on his mobile messenger app. The complainant did not suspect anything as the crooks used picture of company’s director as the display picture. “The ‘director’ texted that he was abroad and securing projects from different companies. To sign the projects, he required money. He shared bank account numbers with the complainant and instructed him to transfer amounts,” Shinde said.She said, “The complainant did not verify this information and transferred Rs 54 lakh from the company’s bank account.” Shinde mentioned that the police have sought the details of these bank accounts. “Our investigations are ongoing,” Shinde said.
