Maharashtra: Engineer foils fraudster’s bid to dupe MSEDCL employees by posing as chairman

A cyber fraudster on WhatsApp posed as the chairman and managing director of the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Co Ltd (MSEDCL) and tried to dupe the company’s employees by sending them messages asking for money owing to an emergency earlier this month, the police said. However, the bid was foiled after an executive engineer felt suspicious and alerted other employees who said that they too had received the same message, they added.

An FIR was registered in this regard by Nirmal Nagar police in Mumbai’s Khar (East) on Thursday, officers said. The 44-year-old complainant in the case is an MSEDCL executive engineer. He said that on August 3 he received a WhatsApp message from a number that bore a photograph of MSEDCL chairman Vijay Singhal.