Pune: Three Nigerians dupe woman of Rs 3.98 crore, under arrest

PUNE: The cyber crime branch of the Pune police on Wednesday arrested three Nigerian nationals in New Delhi on the charge of duping a 60-year-old woman senior executive of a private firm in the city to the tune of over Rs3.98 crore on the pretext of sending her gifts in April.
Senior inspector Dagdu Hake told TOI on Thursday,“ We have recovered 23 smart phones, four laptops, a hard disc, five dongles,three pen drives, eight SIM cards, three debit cards, an identity card and other documents from their flat in Delhi.”
They were identified as Jango Nicolas (29), Monday Okeke (26) and Paulinus Mbamgo (29) from Lagos in Nigeria. They will be brought to Pune on Friday. The cyber police on Thursday said the woman had transferred Rs 3.98 crore to 67 different accounts in 25 banks.
The woman in her FIR had said that in April 202, she had received a friend request on a social media platform from the UK. After five months, the man told her that he had sent her an iPhone as a birthday gift.
The user had made her pay large sums on the pretext of customs clearance for the gifts stuck at Delhi airport. The fraudsters posed as courier agency representatives, custom officials saying that they were holding jewellery and foreign currency in the consignments.
After she realised that she had been duped, she lodged an FIR under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and Information Technology Act.