Hyderabad: The Rachakonda Cyber Crime Cell arrested a 10-member gang of Nigerians on Monday who had been cheating people in the name of funding charity works and marriage proposals. Police said the gang had been targeting victims using different MOs and had collected huge amounts from them. In the city, one of them approached a nurse and after taking her into confidence, offered to fund charity works and extracted money from her.
Police said in November 2016, a 36-year-old woman met one of the suspects named Augustin William on facebook. After chatting for three months he offered to send her a gifts of $50,000, an iPhone, gold jewellery and pearls through courier. Later, she got a call from a person, who identified himself as a customs officer at the Delhi Internat-ional Airport and asked her to deposit Rs 27,500 as registration fee for the gift box.
“After she paid the money, other members of the gang started contacting her and demanded money citing various charges and collected Rs 9.37 lakh from her,” police commissioner Mahesh Bhagwat said. Later, she realised that she had been cheated and lodged a complaint with police. The police nabbed the suspects from Delhi and recovered eight laptops, 26 mobile phones and other material. Inquiries revealed that the gang had cheated several people across the country and had extracted lakhs. The arrested men were remanded to judicial custody.
