<div>State oil giant Saudi Aramco said on Sunday that an attempted fraud that targeted its trading unit Aramco Trading and India's Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) had been foiled.</div><div> </div><div>In a brief statement in Arabic, Aramco said: "The attempted fraud has been foiled and did not have any financial impact on either the two companies or on trading relations between them."</div><div> </div><div>The Indian Express reported on Wednesday that cyber criminals had duped Aramco into making a payment for an order of naphtha from ONGC into their own bank account.</div><div> </div><div>Citing the police team looking into the case, the newspaper reported that ONGC had an order to deliver 36,000 metric tonnes of naphtha to Saudi Aramco.</div><div> </div><div>The fraudsters communicated with Saudi Aramco using an email ID that appeared almost identical the one used by an ONGC official. Aramco officials did not notice the difference.</div><div> </div><div>"The communication from ONGC was done using the e-mail ID patel_dv@ongc.co.in. The fraudsters merely created an e-mail address patel_dv@ognc.co.in," police inspector S. Mahadik was quoted as saying.</div>
