Nigerian man arrested in India for duping woman by posing as US citizen

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Nigerian man arrested in India for duping woman by posing as US citizen on a dating app







Five members of a gang led by a Nigerian national have been arrested in Delhi for duping a woman of Rs7 lakh after befriending her on a dating app by posing as a US citizen.
 

 
The accused identified as racket kingpin and Nigerian national, Chijioke, 37, Prakash Gurung, 24, Paras Mehto,25, Ankit 29, (all from Nepal), and Vinay Kumar, 25, from Champaran in Bihar, were arrested on Friday, January  8. 
 
Chijioke and his brother Frank Obinna ran the racket while Prakash brought people from Nepal and opened their accounts in various banks using fake IDs prepared by Vinay.
 
Police received a complaint from a woman who said that she had accessed a profile in the name of Dr Vijay Giri on an online dating app. She became friends with the account holder and began chatting with him on WhatsApp.
 
The person posing as Dr Giri claimed that he was a US Citizen but based in the UK and wanted to meet her. He also asked her to look for some house in Delhi for his stay.
 
After around 10 months, the woman received calls from 'Dr Giri' that he had landed in Mumbai but was stuck with Customs officials for carrying foreign currency and extra luggage and hence needed money to pay fine and bribe.
 
On his request, she transferred funds in various bank accounts as directed. She was thus cheated of approximately Rs 7 lakh.
 
During investigation, police analysed the details of five bank accounts in which the funds were transferred. It was found that all the accounts were in five different names.
 
One of the account holders was an African national, the officer said. According to the police, it was found that the accused had opened new accounts and their credit or debit cards were being delivered to them at an address in CR Park area.
 
"On Friday, a raid was conducted in CR Park area and three Nepalese nationals were apprehended. Based on their disclosure, Kumar, who used to prepare fake IDs for them, was also arrested from Rajender Nagar," deputy commissioner of police (southwest) Ingit Pratap Singh said.
 
Further investigation led to the arrest of Chijioke, police said. Preliminary interrogation revealed that Chijioke and his brother Frank Obinna were the kingpin of this gang.
 
Gurung used to bring people from Nepal and open accounts in various banks in their names using fake IDs prepared by Kumar, the DCP said.
 
They used to procure sim cards on those fake Indian IDs. The kingpin used to give Rs 1 lakh for arranging one fake account holder from Nepal.
 
The debit cards of the newly opened bank accounts were then given to the kingpin who used these accounts to cheat people, police said.
 
Police recovered 12 passbooks of different banks, 11 debit cards, seven cheque books, eight mobile phones, nine Aadhar cards, seven pan cards, one printer, one stolen scooter and other items from their possession. 


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Cyber Fraud: Nigerian national and his Indian wife arrested for duping a man by posing as UK citizen







A Nigerian man and his South Indian wife have been arrested in connection with a cyber fraud case, the Himachal Pradesh police said on Saturday, January 9.
 
The accused Nwachukwu alias Prince and his Manipuri wife, Thanmhring were arrested in Uttam Nagar in Delhi for duping a man of Rs 13 lakh.
 

 
Additional SP, Cyber crime Nervir Rathore said the duo were booked under FIR (5/21) at Kihar police station in Chamba district.
 
An FIR was lodged on January 4 after a complaint was received by a man regarding the cyber fraud, he said. 
 
16 sim cards, 9 mobile sets, 6 bank passbooks and other incriminating documents were recovered from them.
 

 
"Following the international protocol the Ministry of External Affairs and Nigerian High Commission have been informed", he added. 

The accused lured a resident of Chamba district by befriending him through a fake Facebook ID where he wrote that he was from London.
 

 
The accused told the victim that he had sent an iPhone and 30,000 pounds. Subsequently, victim also had a call that the parcel sent to him was intercepted by customs at Delhi airport and to release it, he has to deposit money. The victim kept on depositing money amounting to Rs 13 lakhs.

The accused is being interrogated and will be produced in the court soon.
 


 

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Married Nigerian man arrested in India for duping woman of N19m on matrimonial site with promises of marriage







A Nigerian man and his Indian wife have been in arrested for allegedly duping a 28-year-old school teacher of nearly  Rs 37 lakh (N19,217,395) after befriending her on a matrimonial site, Jamnagar police said on Friday, January 8.  
 
The accused identified simply as John faked his identity and offered to marry the teacher after seeing her advertisement on a matrimonial website.

The victim paid the amount in a number of instalments over the past six months. The money was deposited in separate bank accounts.

According to Jamnagar cybercrime cell, John called up the teacher identifying himself as Rahul from the US and made a marriage proposal saying that he had seen her details on the matrimonial website. The duo started chatting regularly and one day, he offered to send her an expensive gift.

Meanwhile, the teacher started getting calls from a woman who asked her to deposit some amount in a particular bank for getting the gift parcel released from New Delhi.
 
This continued for nearly six months and the teacher kept depositing money in various bank accounts as asked for by the couple.

“However, she realized something was fishy and contacted us. Based on the numbers she shared, we traced the couple's location to a hotel in Delhi and arrested them on Thursday,” said KJ Bhoi, police inspector, Jamnagar cyber crime cell.
 
The cops arrested John and his wife Savita Bhalekar, who is an Indian. She was the accomplice who called the teacher severally identifying herself as Suma Kumari.
 
They seized 13 mobile phones, one tablet, number of sim cards, three pen drives, six memory cards, 14 ATM cards and five government identification cards.
 
"We suspect that the couple has cheated many people using similar modus operandi. More details will emerge after scanning through the data in their gadgets." said Bhoi.