Fake WhatsApp Boss Dupes Company Accountant of Rs 40 Lakh; Surat Police Arrest Haryana Man in Cyber Fraud Case

Surat Cybercrime Police have arrested a 26-year-old Haryana man in an alleged Rs 40 lakh WhatsApp ‘Boss Scam’ that involved impersonating a company owner to trick an accountant into transferring funds.

The Cybercrime Police of Surat city have arrested a 26-year-old man from Haryana for his alleged role in a Rs 40 lakh ‘Boss Scam’ . In this type of fraud, scammers pretend to be a company owner on WhatsApp and trick an employee into transferring money from the company’s bank account.

The accused, Naveen Jaat, is a resident of Gorakhpur village in Haryana’s Fatehabad district. Police arrested him after a technical investigation into the case.

DCP (Cybercrime) Bishakha Jain said the complainant received a ZIP file containing a harmful electronic script through WhatsApp from an unknown mobile number. The fraudster later created a fake WhatsApp profile using the complainant’s photograph and contacted the company’s accounts department, pretending to be its owner. After asking about the company’s bank balance, the fraudster allegedly convinced the accountant to transfer Rs 40 lakh from the company’s IndusInd Bank account.