Hyderabad: Fraudsters posing as the director of an electric vehicle rental company allegedly duped an employee into transferring ₹50 lakh to a bank account in Delhi. Cyberabad police have registered a cheating case based on a complaint lodged by the company’s representative.The complainant, a junior finance controller at the company, said he received WhatsApp messages from an unknown number on Oct 28. The sender had used the company director’s name and photograph as the display picture.At 11.23 am, the sender allegedly instructed him to urgently transfer ₹50 lakh through RTGS to the current account of a private company at a bank’s Shalimar Bagh branch in Delhi. “Believing the message was from the director, I transferred the amount from the company’s bank account at 11.46 am,” the complainant said.He realised he had been cheated when he contacted the director on his original phone number after the transaction.The company’s IT team subsequently detected suspicious activity on the employee’s mobile phone and laptop, including cursor movements without any user input. Both devices have been isolated and preserved for forensic examination.The incident was reported on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal. Cyberabad police registered a case under Sections 318(4) (cheating) and 319(2) (cheating by personation) of the BNS and Section 66-D of the IT Act on Oct 28.
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