Mumbai: Two Nigerian men and a person’s life partner have been arrested for allegedly deceiving two Milmaikar with a tone of Rs 22 lakh in separate examples of “customs fraud”.
The complainant has received a friend request from the defendant on social media and is lured by a gift appointment if they pay import duties and taxes.
Both complains are educated women.
The police have appealed to citizens not to receive friends’ requests from foreigners online.
In the first case, the woman received friendship requests on Facebook from users ‘Dr.
Colton Ryland Mosley’.
He accepted it.
Mosley told him that he had sent him 40,000 euros as a gift, but claimed that the money was trapped at Delhi airport.
A woman then called a complainant who posed as a customs official and told him to pay Rs of 18.8 lakh as customs and taxes, in June.
After the police complaint was submitted, the North Cyber Police arrested Eric Chris (28), a Nigerian, and Liverubini Gussekharan partner (24).
The police freeze their bank accounts that have 8.7 lakh Rs.
Chris came to India on business visa two years ago and met GunseSharanfrom Tamil Nadu.
In the second case, the complainant has received friendship requests in February in Instagram from ‘Frank Wilson’.
He also told him that he had sent a gift from London.
A woman then called her, posed as a customs official, and made her pay XRS 2.9 lakh using e-wallet as a penalty and cost for gifts.
Then, a man who posed when an RBI officer called a complainant, asking for several other lakhs when he received foreign currency.
He then approached the northern region cyber police.
From Delhi, the police arrested Godwin Eze Nigeria to attract a deceived amount of ATM.
Mastermind is still big.
The police said the gang convinced the victims to transfer money to the bank accounts of beneficiaries based in the north and northeastern.
The EZE role is limited to withdraw money and hand it over to the mastermind.
VISA EZE expires in 2020 and he has sent it in this country.