The target of this gang was the youth of the rural environment. The accused used to call them to their hideout for necessary formalities and get food supplied. Due to this, he also felt that his money was being spent at the right place. On the other hand, till the fraud was realized, the accused used to change their hideout.
A Nigerian gang involved in cheating in Uttar Pradesh and Delhi NCR noida police has disclosed. The fraudsters of this gang used to cheat in the name of getting jobs abroad. At the same time, to avoid the tracking of the police, the fraudsters used to ask for the amount of fraud in the bank accounts of the renters. Noida’s cybercrime police station has arrested seven account holders who had given their bank accounts on rent to this gang. These fraudsters have been arrested from Noida, Delhi and Badaun. The accused told the police during interrogation that they used to provide not only bank accounts but also SIM cards of mobile phones to the fraudsters of the Nigerian gang.
The accused told that the miscreants of the gang used to extract the data of those people through a software, who seek jobs abroad after getting higher or technical education. Fraudsters used to call all these people on the pretext of getting them jobs and used to ask for money from them in the name of necessary formalities. This amount was also called in the bank accounts provided by the arrested accused. Some percentage of this amount was received by the account holders and the rest of the amount was siphoned off by the gang’s fraudsters. According to the cyber station police, the arrested accused have been identified as Jabir Khan alias Jackie, a resident of Bichuria village in Badaun, Raju Singh alias Macchu and Prashant Singh, residents of Baripura village. Similarly, the accused arrested from Ajabpur village in Etawah have been identified as Devvrat Pratap Singh, Rahul Kumar Sharma from Kumrava village in Nalanda, Bihar, Deepak Kumar Gupta from Koshiar in Bihar Ara and Sumant Kumar from Bhojpur in Samastipur.
The youth of the rural environment were on the target
According to the police, youths were the target of this gang. In these too, they used to make the youth of the rural environment quick victims. The accused used to call these youths to their residence in Noida for necessary formalities and get them fed. Due to this, the youth also felt that their money was being spent at the right place. At the same time, till the fraud was realized, the accused used to change their whereabouts and mobile numbers.
8.17 lakh was cheated from retired IPS
According to the police, these fraudsters had made a retired IPS officer a victim last year. The accused carried out this incident under the guise of sending foreign currency to India. The accused told in police interrogation that on June 22, 2022, they had contacted the victim IPS through Facebook and cheated them in the name of sending foreign currency to India. In this case, Krustin, a leader of this gang, has also been arrested on 27 August 2022.
Raids continue in search of other fraudsters
Police said that this gang has received information about many other fraudsters who provided bank account and mobile numbers. Apart from this, input has also been received about those gang members, who used to mislead people by calling them and asked for money in their accounts. In such a situation, the police has intensified raids on the possible hideouts of these fraudsters.
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