Cyber fraud held for cheating entertainment firm

Mumbai A man was arrested on Tuesday evening for allegedly syphoning off ₹11 lakh from Soham Rockstar Entertainment by hacking the firm’s email account.

The man identified as Abrar Abdul Ahmed, said to be an expert in “man-in-the-email” cyber attacks and a resident of Jamtara in Jharkhand, was arrested from Goregaon where he was trying to withdraw a syphoned amount from an ATM kiosk.

According to the Oshiwara police, the owner of the Shabir Ahmed Entertainment company, Dawood Sayyed (62), had approached Soham Rockstar on August 26 after the fraud sent him an email of an invoice to make the payment to the bank account mentioned, instead of the bank account that Soham Rockstar had initially shared with him.