Email hacked, man duped of Rs 34 lakh

Mangaluru: A man from Karkala, working as a partner in a cashew factory, was duped of Rs 34 lakh after his email was hacked by an unidentified person.
According to Karkala town police, Dinesh Nayak, partner in Madhav Prakash Cashew Company, Kariyakallu had entered into an agreement with a firm in Goa to import raw cashews worth Rs 38 lakh to his processing unit.He had paid Rs 4 lakh to the firm as token advance. All the conversations and transaction orders were carried out through emails.
However, an unidentified person allegedly hacked Dinesh's email, sent him a fake mail claiming that he was from the import firm from Goa and asked to remit the rest of the amount in the account number he sent in the mail. The hacker had slightly changed the email address, which Dinesh failed to notice and without cross examining with the import firm, the cash was deposited into the hacker's account, according to police.
Police said the advance payment transaction was made to Corporation Bank in Goa. While second transaction of Rs 34 lakh was remitted through real-time gross settlement systems (RTGS) to an account in Bank of India, Maharashtra state.
Sources claimed that soon after the transactions, the hacker transacted the money to various accounts. "We have obtained all details about the hacker and will nab him soon," a source said.
A case of cheating under Section 420 of Indian Penal Code, has been registered at Town police station.