FACEBOOK FRIENDSHIP AND CHEATING RACKET BUSTED

Ø  ONE AFRICAN NATIONAL AND TWO GIRLS ARRESTED

Ø  THE AFRICAN NATIONAL WAS OVERSTAYING ON EXPIRED VISA

Ø  ONE LAPTOP, 5 MOBILE PHONES, 26 SIM CARDS, 5 DATA CARDS AND OTHER ARTICLES RECOVERD

With the arrest of three accused persons (1) Sunday Udubor (29 years) s/o Udubor r/o Mohan Garden, Uttam Nagar, Delhi, Permanent address 182, Agbor, Delta State, Nigeria, (2) Jasmine Vanlalhrietpui (24 years) r/o Mohan Garden, Uttam Nagar, Delhi, a native of Assam and (3) Wanshim Chithung@S. Sunita (29 years ) r/o Krishnapuri, Tilak Nagar, Delhi, a native of Manipur, the case FIR No.318/16, U/s 420/34 IPC, dated 04.06.16 PS Maurya Enclave wherein Facebook friendship and thereafter cheating racket operated by African national has been busted by Special Staff/North West Distt.

INCIDENT

On 04/06/2016 a complaint at PS Maurya Enclave was received in which one complainant Deepti (Name changed) r/o Pitampura, Delhi alleged that few days back an unknown person sent her a friend request on facebook by the profile name 'Bill George'.  She accepted the friendship request and accused started chatting with her.  Alleged person sent message to the complainant that he also owns a big company by the name of M/s Rain Nutrition Company in U.K. and offered her the job of 'CEO' in Rain Nutrition Co. UK.  Thereafter, he sent message to her that he is sending a gift along with an invitation letter for job. Thereafter, on 30.05.2016 an unknown girl called the complainant over phone and told her that your courier has been received and before taking it you have to pay courier charge of Rs.27,500/-.  To convince the complainant, the accused also sent a printed image of Courier Slip on WhatsApp of complainant containing address of despatch from UK.  The complainant was convinced and she deposited money in the account provided by the calling lady.  On next day, some other lady called the complainant and told her that the parcel contains 30,000 Pounds for which you have to pay Rs.2,17,000/- as currency charge before taking the Parcel.  The complainant further deposited the amount in the same bank account through NEFT.  Later they again asked for Rs.4,00,000/- more on which the complainant got suspicious and checked details from the courier company which found out to be fake. A case was vide FIR No.318/16, U/s 420/34 IPC, PS Maurya Enclave on 04.06.2016 was registered and investigation was taken up by Special Staff, North West District.

INVESTIGATION AND INTERROGATION

During the course of investigation a team was constituted consisting of Special Staff, North West District by the order of DCP/NWD under the close supervision of Inspector Arun Kumar, AATS, North West District.

The team so constituted work relentlessly and on the basis of technical surveillance mounted on the alleged number the team zeroed down the operating number in Uttam Nagar area.

On 17/07/2016, the team comprising of SI Vikas, HC Naresh, HC Neeraj, Ct Sombir, Ct Dheeraj, Ct Sanjit, Ct Manjeet, Ct. Staender, W/Ct Sneh Lata along with a team from PS Maurya Enclave comprising of SI Sandeep (IO of the case), Ct. Mukesh, W/Ct Kuldeep Kaur laid trap and  conducted raid at the suspect addresses and  three accused namely (1) Sunday Udubor s/o Udubor from Africa (2) Jasmine Vanlalhrietpui from Assam (3) Wanshim Chithung @ S. Sunita from Manipur were apprehended.

A mobile phone from the girl called the complainant as a courier agent was also recovered from the residence of accused Sunday & Jasmine who were found . Accused Sunday Udubor is residing in India on an expired visa. Passbook and cheque book of the alleged account in which complainant deposited the amount were also recovered from Wanshim Chithung@S. Sunita.  All the accused were in touch through their mobile phones.

During investigation one case of PS Bindapur in which accused used almost same modus operandi to cheat the complainant to the tune of Rs.76,000/- is also being worked out.

MODUS OPERANDI:

Accused Sunday Udubor is living in India for the past 5 years.  He is from Africa . He formed a gang along with other African National(still absconding) and two girls from India.  After making a fake facebook profile, they would send friend request randomly to the people residing all over India.  When the victim befriended him he lured them on the pretext of providing Jobs in foreign countries. Later they would send message in respect of courier sent by him from UK having a job letter & other precious/costly articles/gifts.  A lady would also pretend to be a courier agent and ask the victim to deposit courier charges in a account number opened in the name of another girl.  To convince victim, they also send images of courier slip followed by a call.  They had cheated approximately 600 persons (victim) across India by using different SIM Nos. & Mobile phones.

RECOVERY:

1.    5 mobile phones

2.    A Laptop

3.    26 SIM Cards

4.    5 data cards/dongles

5.    2 Adhaar Cards, 2 ATM Cards, 1 cheque book

6.    Passport of the accused Sunday Udubor

PROFILE:

1.    Sunday Udubor (29 years) s/o Udubor r/o Mohan Garden, Uttam Nagar, Delhi, Permanent address 182, Agbor, Delta State, Nigeria. Accused came to India five years back on medical visa but had not returned back and is residing in India on an expired Visa for the past about 3 years. He said that he is living with the accused lady Jasmine in a rented accommodation.  They keep on changing their address in Uttam Nagar and nearby areas..  

2.    Jasmine Vanlalhrietpui (24 years) R/O Mohan Garden, hails from Assam. She came in contact with accused Sunday Udubor through facebook in August 2015 and later on came to Delhi and got in touch with Sunday Udubor.

3.    Wanshim Chithung@S. Sunita (29 years) R/O Manipur is also residing with the African National.  She came to Delhi a few years back and worked in saloon and spa centers in NCR. She came in contact with the male accused African National through facebook.