What should you do if your CEO asks you for money?

[Varun]

NEW DELHI: When the senior manager of a firm based in Nehru Place received an SOS mail from the "CEO" asking for an urgent transfer of around Rs 5 lakh to finalise a deal, the employee had no reasons to suspect foul play.

However, just before he was to process the RTGS transfer, he informed his office so that they could take it up from there. This last-minute decision revealed that it was a con job by crooks posing as the CEO and other officials of random firms.

The racket was busted with the arrest of two men, including a Nigerian national who can speak fluent Hindi. The accused have been identified as Amit Gupta (31) and Bill Uzowuru Izuchukwu (31).

The two men have allegedly duped scores of people and collected more than Rs 1 crore in the last four months itself. "We are analysing the transactions in suspect accounts to get clues about other victims," DCP (southeast) Chinmoy Biswal.

The suspects were carrying out the scam through three bank accounts in the name of non-existent firms opened a few months ago. They were facing problems opening new accounts due to the requirement of Aadhaar cards and mandatory condition of having a GST number for opening current accounts of companies.

A complaint was filed by a firm named Virtuosos Solutions informing police of crooks impersonating their CEO. "A team led by inspector Rajeev Malik from the cyber cell was formed to crack the case and an FIR registered at Kalkaji police station," Biswal added.

When the bank accounts given by the crooks for transferring the money were scanned, they were found opened in the name of one Prem Gupta. After analysing several transactions, cops zeroed in on Amit Gupta, who was apprehended from Nehru Place. He led police to his associate Izuchukwu who had no passport or visa on him.

Gupta had several online and offline identities that he used to open bank accounts and dupe people. He was married and had told his family that he worked for a clothing firm.

The accused got the idea for the crime after receiving an alert message from his bank warning customers to stay safe from online fraudsters. He rented a house in Deoli hoping to find an accomplice. He met Izuchukwu who had spent months learning Hindi to thrive in India. Police have seized SIM cards, cellphones, laptops and other items and documents from them.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...fore-leaping-to-help/articleshow/62386492.cms

Wow - these Nigerians do have their tentacles deep into online scams of all kind!

 

[CricketCartoons]

Wow - these Nigerians do have their tentacles deep into online scams of all kind!

The main culprit was the Indian but let us blame the Nigerians first.

Gupta had several online and offline identities that he used to open bank accounts and dupe people. He was married and had told his family that he worked for a clothing firm.

The accused got the idea for the crime after receiving an alert message from his bank warning customers to stay safe from online fraudsters. He rented a house in Deoli hoping to find an accomplice. He met Izuchukwu who had spent months learning Hindi to thrive in India. Police have seized SIM cards, cellphones, laptops and other items and documents from them.

 

[Bewal Express]

I love Nigerians. I once taught a Nigerian student and he told me that he spent his days try to lure old men into sending money as he pretended to be a young Russian women looking for love.

 

[Varun]

If there's a silver lining to this story, it is this:

The suspects were carrying out the scam through three bank accounts in the name of non-existent firms opened a few months ago. They were facing problems opening new accounts due to the requirement of Aadhaar cards and mandatory condition of having a GST number for opening current accounts of companies.

Considering March 31 is the deadline for linking Aadhar to your bank accounts, the clock was ticking on these two in any case.

 

[big_gamer007]

I would show my CEO my last appraisal letter and he would be embarrassed and ashamed of himself asking me for my money..

- Every IT employee.

 

[shaz619]

These Nigerians are experts at these scams; ebay, now posing as CEO, heck their fallacies have even taken over British Boxing as well because Anthony Joshua is the biggest scammer of them all

 

[Pakistanian]

Lol

Reminds me of when my manager asked me for a couple hundreed $$$. He needed "cigarettes".

 

[Suleiman]

There's a scam type business in the US known as Vector. They send letters to recently graduated high school students promising great job offers. When you go in for an interview you have to purchase a set of cutlery with your own money and then sell it to people and get commission off it.