Vadodara cybercrime team stands successfully in getting back 31 lakhs (35,673 euro) of Synergy Traders deposited in a bank in Portugal, as part of a cyber fraud case.  According to complainant Ramesh Niladhar Shah, who owns a company Synergy Traders at Ellorapark in Vadodara and deals in raw materials of Borosilicate glass tubes. He imports the raw materials from German company SCHOTT AG and transfers the money to their account. The official conversion is done through email at tina.brandner@schott.com. However, the foreign cybercriminals made the new email ID tina.brandner@schottt.com by adding one extra 't' in their address and contacted Ramesh Shah on 7th October 2021. They mentioned that due to a change in global strategy, the money will not be deposited in the regular bank account in Germany and asked the complainant to deposit money in another account in Portugal. <

Author-Shlok Talati