I am starting with a range of Cyber Crime Investigation Case Studies provided as assignment by Asian School of Cyber Laws for their students of Cyber Crime Investigation. Please provide me a possible solution to the case provided and broaden your hacking skills. I will giving comments and hints if you need any in between.I will be giving my solution at the end of the month. So till then keep thinking!
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- Sia Mukherjee has lodged a complaint with the police that someone has stolen her online banking username and password and fraudulently withdrawn Rs. 250,000.
- On investigation the bank says that they are unable to give details of the IP address of the computer which was used for the alleged fraudulent transaction.
- sia_mukherjee@yahoo.co.in is the official email account of Sia Mukherjee. She has been using this email ID to communicate with the bank. In the past, the bank has sent the password of Sia's online banking account to this email account three times.
- Click here to download the emails that have been recovered by the police from her email account.
- Please advise the police how to proceed.
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