The National Bureau of Investigation cybercrimes division now looks into how an overseas Filipino worker in India got fleeced by P100,000 from email hacking.
Oseta Balena, who works for a consultancy firm in India, sought the NBI’s help when her family failed to receive the money she remitted after emailing her office on August 8 instructions to transfer money in her bank account in Las Piñas.
But the NBI cybercrime agents found an unidentified hacker had infiltrated Balena’s email since August 5, managing to divert instructions to send her money to another account.
The agents traced the money had been transferred into an account of a certain Marelyn M. Javier in a bank in Taytay, Rizal.
The said bank monitored Javier’s withdrawal of P152,000 in two separate days from August 12 before closing the account. But the bank declined to disclose further details of Javier, the Cybercrime Division said.
The bureau has already launched an investigation on the case as well as to determine the extent of the online theft scheme.
The NBI will also look on to other victims, if there are, to shed more light on the new modus.
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