Police have arrested four Nigerians in connection with a SMS lottery fraud case where an unsuspected victim was duped off nearly Rs 14 lakh.
Police have arrested four Nigerians in connection with a SMS lottery fraud case where an unsuspected victim was duped off nearly Rs 14 lakh.
The four were brought to Dimapur yesterday from Faridabad and New Delhi for their alleged involvement in SMS lottery fraud by which the cell phone users were cheated after collecting huge amount of money from them, police said today.
The modus operandi of this SMS lottery business is that the unsuspected respondents to SMS have to deposit money through cheques/drafts anticipating that they would get huge amount in Dollar or Pound. But in reality, it does not happen, complained many victims across the north eastern region for past couple of months.
The arrests of four Nigerians, who came to India on business visas, were followed by picking up of two persons (Indians) on September 29 last year by Dimapur police from Faridabad and New Delhi respectively.
Police had initiated the case following a compliant lodged by a victim from Purana Bazaar area of Dimapur on August 17 saying he was duped off Rs 13,96,550 through the SMS lottery business.
Additional superintendent of police I Sungit Longkumer said the complainant received a SMS from one Peter Anderson informing that he had won one million British pounds in a special lottery.
When the unsuspected victim contacted the person through e-mail, he was instructed to deposit Rs 35,000 as clearance fee, Rs one lakh for anti-terror certificate, Rs 2 lakh to obtain authority certificate from RBI and Rs 4,61,550 for international/local tax and anti-drug certificates.
The victim was again asked to deposit Rs 1.5 lakh, Rs 2.5 lakh and Rs 2 lakh separately for transaction fee, local taxes and anti-tax certificates respectively in different bank accounts. In this way, the victim already transferred through
various deposits a total of Rs 13,96,550.
Unfortunately there was no lottery money and no response from the conmen. Further interrogations of the arrested four were on, police said.
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