Online Fraud Scam Busted with the Arrest of One Nigerian National
Crime Branch Delhi has busted a
gang of Nigeria based scamsters with the arrest of one
Cyber Cell of Crime Branch had
been directed to work upon cheats who are luring general public and siphoning
off their hard earned money by trapping them on one pretext or the other. In
one such incident, a retired school teacher had been cheated to the tune of
Rs.4.85 lac. A case was registered under the appropriate sections of the law
and search was made to apprehend the cheats. The accused was zeroed in to be a
Nigerian national living in the area of Gujjar Dairy, Gautam Nagar, New Delhi. On 15.12.2015, after receiving specific
information about him, a team led by Addl.DCP S.K. Singh comprising of ACP H.M.
Bakshi, Inspr. Ram Niwash, ASI Vikrant, HCs Rakesh, Praveen, Cts Gagan, Kapil,
Narender and Nishant was constituted under the close supervision of Addl.CP
Alok Kumar to nab him.
At about 7 pm, the accused was
spotted in the market of Gulmohar Enclave near Gujjar Dairy. When challenged,
he tried to escape but was apprehended in a swift action by the police party and
he was later identified as Furtunatus Obinna.
BRIEF
FACT:
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In this
particular case, an email was received from mail Id marianaedwards@live.com to the
victim. The mailer pretended to be a young girl of 25 years, a medical student of
Sudan, living in an orphanage of Senegal due to political crisis in her
country. She used seductive phrases to lure him and wrote that her parents have
been killed in the riots, leaving behind a big fund of 2.7 million US dollars
and asked the victim to help her in getting this amount transferred by allowing
her to deposit the same in his account for the time being. She wrote that due
to some critical laws of her country, she cannot claim this fund directly. This
fund had to be transferred to some other account and then after the same will
be transferred to her account. In the
name of process charges for this transfer, she lured the victim to deposit Rs.85,378/-
in an account of Canara Bank and Rs.3,99,231/- in an another account of ICICI bank
and the victim deposited the same on 25.04.2015 and 04.05.2015
respectively. After depositing this
amount, the victim was further asked to deposit Rs.8 lac in an account of
Standard Chartered Bank. At this, the victim got suspicious and instead of
depositing this amount, approached Delhi Police and lodged FIR No.144/15 u/s
420/468/471/120b IPC & 66(d) IT Act, PS Crime Branch, Delhi with Cyber Cell,
Crime Branch.
MODUS
OPERANDI: -
During
sustained interrogation, accused Furtunatus Obinna stated that he used to purchase
ATM cards from some agents who used to open such bank accounts just to sell for
Rs.10,000/- to 20,000/-. After purchasing the ATM cards, he used to change
their SMS alert mobile number to his own number through the ATMs. Thereafter,
he used to send the details of so purchased bank accounts to his associates in
Nigeria who would give these account numbers to the potential victims whom they
have lured into their trap. As soon as the victims would deposit the money in
these accounts, he used to withdraw this amount through ATMs after receiving
the SMS alert. After keeping his share of 50% share, he used to send this money
to his associates in Nigeria.
PROFILE: -
The accused was born in Enugu Estate
of Nigeria in 1979. After completion of his graduation, he came to India in the
year 2010 on Business visa but he could not do any suitable business and
started living with some of his rogue countrymen in the area of Arjun Nagar and
Safdarjung Enclave. He was earlier arrested in a case FIR No.292/10 u/s 20/61/85
NDPS Act, PS Safdarjung Enclave which is under trial in Saket Courts. After
getting released on bail in 2011, he started a shop of African goods i.e. cookies,
drinks and other eatables of South Africa and during this period, he met one
Igwe of Nigeria who convinced him to join the scam.
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