India, March 31 -- An US-based firm's Indian branch was duped of Rs.3.52 crore by a cybercriminal who impersonated as another director of their company on March 26, said police on Sunday, adding that a case has been registered at the cybercrime branch police station and Rs.52 lakh frozen in the account.

Police said the complainant, an official at the administrative office of Noida's Sector 63 branch, reported the incident on behalf of the victim director, saying that one of their company's directors received a WhatsApp message from an unidentified number, asking for money transfer to a client.

The message sender, posing as another director of the same company, told the victim director that he had changed his phone number and thus commun...