Noida (IANS) | Noida Police has busted a Nigerian gang involved in social media fraud. The members of this gang used to befriend the girls on Instagram and trap them on the pretext of sending them expensive gifts. After this, they used to cheat lakhs of rupees in the name of clearance by saying that the gift would be confiscated by the custom officials. This gang has so far duped hundreds of high profile women by luring them. The arrested gang includes 7 Nigerian nationals and an Indian woman. ADCP Shakti Awasthi said that the police arrested Daniel Zone resident Accra Ghana, Calvin Okafor Guise resident Obianima Delta State Nigeria, Uchenna Egbu resident Umhia Enugu State Nigeria, Jonas Dacca resident Accra Ghana, Hibib Fofana resident Abidjan Cote Dilvoire, Ixa Sagir resident Kaduna State Nigeria, Gangtok Sikkim resident Radhika Chettri, Oyoma Lisa Domenik resident of Delta State Nigeria have been arrested. All these accused lived in a flat in Nihal Vihar, Delhi.
ADCP Shakti Awasthi said that in the investigation so far, these people have made about 700 women their victims. They were doing the work of cheating for many years. By transferring the cheated money to various fake accounts, the money received is transferred to the fake account of his other partner Jonas Dacca. After this, his hobbies were fulfilled by another of his accomplices, Hibib Fofana, by converting the money from Indian currency to Nigerian currency.
ADCP told that it is an organized gang. They are basically residents of Nigeria, Ghana, Abid Jan country of Africa continent. Came to India in the year 2021 on visa for studies and treatment. Four of these visas had expired after 6 months of 2021. Even after the validity period of the visa was over, these accused did not go back to their native country and were cheating people while staying in India.
All these accused used to befriend women on Instagram. After taking them into confidence, they used to take personal numbers, after taking their addresses from the women, by pretending to send gold jewellery, expensive watches, phones etc. to their addresses in a fake form, by deceiving the women, they collected customs duty etc. in various forms. I used to cheat money. To attract women, he used to call himself the captain of Navy and send photos to them. The woman of this gang used to talk to them by posing as a custom officer and extort money, because the woman accused knew how to speak Hindi.
–IANS