Afimag.com –
Four Nigerians have been arrested for allegedly defrauding numerous business executives in India and other regions.
The suspects who lured their victims to invest with them and promised good returns, were arrested by the Cyber Crime Wing of the Greater Chennai Police in Navi Mumbai, India.
According to Hindus news, the Nigeria nationales were arrested in Kharghar, a suburb of Navi Mumbai and brought to the city by the police.
The suspects were Okorie Godswill Sainasa, 32, Uche John Imeka, 47, Godwin Emmanuel, 32, and Eposie Uchenna Stanley, 32.
Africa Investigative Magazine gathered that the suspects worked as a team to reach business magnates via LinkedIn and other social media platforms. One of the team members had a fake profile picture of a white woman in the name of Nora Morrison from Canada on WhatsApp status approached the victim, a businessman from Kolathur.
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According to the police, the victim claimed to be the Chief Executive Officer of a Canada-based pharmaceutical firm and offered good bargain for supplying herbal oil. At that point, others contacted the victim with false information to achieve their collective target.
The victim, however, made online transfers in December 2022 for ₹33 lakh to the account mentioned by the fraudsters towards procuring oil from Delhi and supplying it to Canada. He did not receive any discount as promised and he lost his money as the prospective business supporters could not be reached anymore.
Luck ran out of them when a special team of police led by Cyber Crime Wing Inspector T. Vinodhkumar analysed their call records, mails and other electronic communications and traced down the suspects near Mumbai, after an official complaint and arrested the suspected fraudsters.
Mr. Vinodh Kumar, who explained the modus operandi of the gang, said it had four teams parading themselves as the executives, purchase managers, suppliers and quality control. In reality, all teams were Nigerian nationales operating from a home in Navi Mumbai.
Kumar stated that accused persons do not video chat but place their victims on phone calls in Chennai. They mainly targeted people in the import-export business and who had registered their details on business portals and social media platforms.
