The MRA Marg police are on the lookout for an unknown person who hacked into the bank account of a 29-year-old woman and made online purchases worth Rs3.17 lakh.
The victim, a resident of Malad (W), works in a reputed consultancy firm at Goregaon and has her salary account in a private bank having its head office at Fort.
The police said the woman (name withheld) learnt about her account being compromised on December 16 after she received an SMS alert, informing her about an online transaction.
“The message stated that Rs3.17lakh had been debited from her account. Shocked, the victim got in touch with her bank and was informed that the money had been used to do purchases of expensive sarees and clothes from the website of one Utsav Sarees,” said an officer from the MRA Marg police station.
He added that the woman immediately lodged a complaint with the Bangur Nagar police and the case was later transferred to the MRA Marg police since the head office of the bank is situated in Fort.
“The cyber fraudster had managed to get login details of the victim. We are trying to trace the IP address of the computer that was used to do the internet shopping,” said inspector Siddheshwar Gove of MRA Marg police station.
The police have registered a case under section 420 (cheating) of the Indian Penal Code and section and 66D (cheating by personation by using computer resource) of the IT Act against an unknown person.
