The District Cyber Cell, North West District, arrested three people, including a Nigerian national, who were involved in a racket of cheating random people through Facebook.
According to a senior police official, the accused were identified as Sunday Udubor (29), the kingpin, and two other girls Jasmine Vanlalhrietpui (24) and Wanshim Chithung (29). While Udubor is a Nigerian, the rest belong to the North-East.
Police said, a complaint was registered against the three at Maurya Enclave Police Station on June 4 by one Deepali Walia, a resident of Pitampura. The complainant alleged that she received an unknown friend request on Facebook named Bill George which she accepted and started chatting. The accused assured Deepali a job as the CEO of Rain Nutrition Company in UK. Thereafter, he said the company would be sending some expensive gifts for which she has to pay Rs27,500 and the complainant deposited the amount in the bank details provided by accused.
Next day, she again received a call from a lady and was informed that she has to deposit Rs2,17,000 as currency charge for 30,000 pounds. The victim again forfeited the amount but got suspicious on another call demanding Rs4 lakh.
A team was formed to gather information on the racket. The team after thorough investigation arrested all the accused.
“During investigation, a mobile phone from which calls were made to the complainant as a courier agent, was recovered from the residence of the accused and Udubor was arrested. On questioning Udubor, further details about other two accused were received. Jasmine, who was living in Uttam Nagar in a live-in relationship and Wanshim were arrested. Udubor has been living in India on an expired visa,” DCP North-West District, Vijay Singh told The Pioneer, adding, “A passbook and cheque-book of alleged account in which the amount deposited was recovered from Wanshim, who was also arrested.”
Police recovered five mobile phones, a laptop, 26 sim cards, five data cards, two Aadhaar cards, two ATM cards, a cheque book and passport of the accused. A similar case has come up at Bindapur Police Station in which accused applied similar modus operandi to cheat the complainant, he added.