Impersonation Rip-off: Fraudster Poses as Boss, Methods Sufferer Into Shopping for ₹1 Lakh Price of App Store Codes from Amazon

Tarun Karthick

Sri Vijaya Puram, 26 September 2025

PS Chatham has registered a case of cyber fraud after a younger resident of Anarkali, Delanipur, was cheated of ₹1 lakh by a fraudster who impersonated her boss by way of electronic mail and WhatsApp.

According to the First Information Report (FIR) lodged at Chatham Police Station, the incident occurred on June 27, 2025. The sufferer obtained an electronic mail on her official work account from an account that displayed the identify of her boss. Believing it to be genuine, she shared her WhatsApp quantity when requested.

Later the identical day, she obtained WhatsApp messages from a overseas quantity, once more posing as her superior. The fraudster claimed that presents have been being organized for workers and directed her to buy 10 App Store Codes from Amazon value ₹10,000 every. Trusting the request, the sufferer used two bank cards belonging to her father to purchase the codes, which she then shared with the impersonator.

A complete of ₹1,00,000 was spent throughout ten separate transactions, all carried out on the identical day. The codes, listed within the FIR, have been efficiently generated and despatched by way of WhatsApp to the fraudster.

The deception got here to mild when the fraudster demanded extra codes. On nearer inspection, the sufferer seen that the unique electronic mail had not been despatched from her boss’s official ID however from a special Gmail account. Realizing she had been duped, she instantly lodged a criticism on the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal earlier than approaching the native police.

Based on her criticism, a case has been registered underneath Sections 318(4) and 319(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023.