Police arrested three fraudulent Nigeria nationals on Monday, who deceived more than 1,000 people through social media platforms, dating websites, matrimonial sites, and other fake services giving. Numerous crores of rupees in the last eight years have been snatched from the people.
Police revealed their names, Paul Onyeji Atuh, Samuel Aniagor, and Charles Pous Chukwuebuka. The gang had been duping people from other Asian countries as well, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Central) Shweta Chauhan said.
The resident of Central Delhi filed a complaint against those frauds and that’s when the matter came to light. The woman complained on the National Cyber Crime Portal stating that she had been defrauded of ₹ 55,900.
According to the complainant, she came in a touch with a person on a matrimonial site. He introduced himself as Ankit Verma and that he was a doctor based out of Canada. They exchanged phone numbers and started talking to each other on WhatsApp, Chauhan said.
On December 22 last year, the person told the complainant that he had arrived at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here, but the customs officers had held him for carrying a huge amount of Canadian dollars.
“Then, a lady called the complainant from another mobile number and told her that Verma had been taken into custody at the airport and that they needed to pay ₹ 55,900 to get him released.”
The complainant transferred the money in two installments to the bank account provided by the lady,” the DCP said.
The fraudulent have been using this particular stories with every individual they got into their trapped. Many people from Northeastern India were also victimized by the extortion.
