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Six including 3 Nigerians held for online fraud
The CCS police here on Sunday arrested six persons, including three Nigerians, who were involved in cheating through Facebook chatting at Thane in Maharashtra, with the help of local sleuths. One Raju Jembiya, 24, of Parsigutta, Secunderabad lodged a complaint with Cyber Crime Police on Friday that his friend C Sadashiva made friendship with one Terry Joseph of Nigeria on Facebook six months ago.
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Hyderabad: The CCS police here on Sunday arrested six persons, including three Nigerians, who were involved in cheating through Facebook chatting at Thane in Maharashtra, with the help of local sleuths. One Raju Jembiya, 24, of Parsigutta, Secunderabad lodged a complaint with Cyber Crime Police on Friday that his friend C Sadashiva made friendship with one Terry Joseph of Nigeria on Facebook six months ago.
The latter introduced himself as a businessman running a restaurant in Nigeria. During the chatting, Terry expressed his willingness to start a restaurant in India also. He desired to invest $1,00,000 in the venture.The complainant and Sadashiva too expressed their willingness to invest in the business. As a result, Terry assured them to send $100,000 in an electronic container box through Arab Cargo Ltd. UK.
On June 10 this year, Terry told them that he has dispatched the container box and it would reach India on June 11. He also told them that he paid all the taxes concerning the money in the box. Later one of his friends, Daniel, called Sadashiva and informed that they would need to pay Customs clearance charges. So, Sadashiva and the complainant paid Rs 1.6 lakh in seven accounts as advised by Daniel.
After making the payments, his friend Sadashiva went to Mumbai to receive the electronic box and on the directions of Terry Johseph he met with one agent Mahesh Damodar Rajput for taking the electronic cash box. Mahesh Damodar Rajput demanded Rs 2 lakh for handing over the cash box. His friend paid the amount to Mahesh.
After receiving the cash, Mahesh told his friend that the cash box would be delivered in two days. His friend waited in Mumbai for three days but he did not receive any electronic container box with money. When contacted, Mahesh did not respond. Then they realised that they were cheated by Terry Johseph, Damodar Rajput and their team.
Following the complaint, Cyber Crime Police registered a case and analysed the tower locations of Daniel, who acted as friend of Terry Joseph. Thane Police kept surveillance over the account holders and proceeded to Thane on the same night and nabbed the account holders Samadan Laxman Mali,21 a student and Rahul Dilip Kharde, 25 and on the lead given by them apprehended the main agent Mahesh Damodar Rajput, 36, a home loan agent and native of Maharashtra.
