Press note of Jt.CP. CCS fraud

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P R E S S   N O T E  

A special team  of Cyber Crime Police, CCS, DD, Hyderabad apprehended four (4) offenders, who have cheated an innocent woman victim to the tune of Rs. 15,62,000/-. in an online Matrimonial Fraud.  The offenders were apprehended 13.09.15 at 2130 Hrs, at Delhi and brought them on Transit Warrant to Hyderabad and today i.e. on18-09-2015they are being produced in the court.

ARRESTED OFFENDERS:

1. Mr. Igbute Kingsley Ucheka @ Tony @ Kris S/O Igbute Lawrence passport No.A03847655 age.31 yrs R/O Property No. 245/13, School Block, Mandawali, New Delhi-92 N/O Ileje Quarters, Umunede, Nigeria Ph.8800573452, 9873762367
2. Mr. Igbute Jude Nwabulor S/O Igbute Lawrence passport No.A03872454 age.27 yrs R/O Property No. 245/13, School Block, Mandawali, New Delhi-92 N/O Ileje Quarters, Umunede, Nigeria
3. Mr.Santosh Kumar @ Suman S/O  Kameswara Prasad age.28 years R/O H.No. 234, Galli No.5 Mandawali, New Delhi N/O Kadhya village, Sahasa district, Bihar
4. Dhirendra Kumar @ Dhanush @ Rahul Pandey S/O Surendra Pal age.26 yrs R/O H.No.71, Flat No.101, Chilla village, Mayur Vihar Phase-1, New Delhi N/O Lakhnapar village, Basti mandal, Sant Kabirnagar district, U.P

ABSCONDING ACCUSED:

1. James
2. Praveen Singh
3. Mahesh Kumar Tiwari.
4. Nikhil Sharma
5. Samir Gupta
6. Sunil Kumar
7. Sandeep Mishra
8. Lalitha
9. Ashok Singh

MODUS OPERENDI OF THE CRIMINALS

The Nigerians Ugwunge Lewis Afamefuna, Tony @ Kris and James are the kingpins behind the crime.  The Modus Operandi of the group is that they register themselves as prospective bridegrooms on Matrimonial Websites on fictitious name particularly as a high-profile professional/business man staying abroad and target innocent women particularly Widows or Single Women who are vexed with their loneliness and are in-search of a suitable life partner, on the pretext of marriage alliance. Once the victims fall into their trap they start squeezing money from the victim saying that they are sending expensive gifts and the victim has to claim the same through Customs etc. This is a new mode of cheating particularly women by conmen, besides the regular Nigerian frauds viz. lottery fraud, job frauds, insurance fraud etc.

For this purpose, the Nigerian Kingpins lay down an extensive trap with the help of their Indian associates, who provide them bank accounts on fictitious names in different banks, so that the victim can deposit the amounts in these accounts and the Nigerians withdraw the amount with the help of their Indian henchmen who are paid commission ranging from 8% to 20% appx. Such bank accounts are created using fake PAN Cards, Voter IDs etc. The mobile phones and SIMs used in the offence are also taken on fake IDs and addresses and used particularly only for contacting victim. There are group of Indian henchmen who provide fake accounts to these Nigerians to execute their ill-designs.

In the subject case,  Lewis Afamefuna registered his profile in Bharath matrimony.com with a fictitious name Chandran David Patel and introduced himself as a Bewerage Operations Manager,  aged 51yrs, residing at Miami Florida working for Carnival Cruise Lines, contact no.+44 7405661412, email ID chan111pat@gmail.com/ patel.david1001@gmail.com. He sent messages to many women who registered their profiles in bharathmatrimony.com expressing his interest to marry them. He gradually starts chat with the women showing interest in his profile, over messenger or through emails and expresses much concern and love towards them. After chatting for a month or two months he tells them that he would send a parcel containing gold ornaments, watches, wedding ring and huge amount of cash in UK pounds to them as a token of acceptance of marriage alliance by him.

Next day the victims receive a call from unknown person stating that a parcel is arrived at Delhi Airport and the victim needs to pay customs tax for that. Initially they demand for a small amount to check whether the victim is falling in their trap or not. After receiving that amount, they demand huge amounts stating that it is illegal to send cash in a parcel etc. Later the victims are asked to pay for clearance of anti terrorist certificate, money laundering certificate etc. Like that they squeeze maximum amounts from the victims and then switch off the cell phones. In this manner the complainant was trapped in to their web and was looted to a tune of Rs.15,62,000/-. and Jude Nwabulor assisted the main culprits James, Kingsley Ucheka and Lewis in collecting money from agents and transferring to Lewis.

Santosh Kumar, Mahesh Kamar Tiwari, Dhirendra Kumar and Praveen are the Indian associates of these Nigerians, who create fake voter ID cards and respective PAN cards with different names open A/Cs in different banks. After opening bank accounts, the account number, pan card number and IFSC codes are supplied to Nigerians. Nigerians cheat victims in the above stated manner and get the money deposited in the said accounts supplied by the agents.  Agents withdraw money from the banks by using debit cards and cheques. After withdrawal the agents deduct their commission ranging from 8% or 20% and handover the remaining money to the Nigerians.

The analysis and field team of Cyber Crime PS conducted extensive analysis of mobile data, bank account, alert numbers, and zeroed in on the offenders and in a meticulous operation apprehended the said four (4) accused persons from Mandawali area of NewDelhi. Earlier, the Kingpin Lewis Afamefuna was arrested in Aug’2015 and seized incriminatin material from his possession.

the accused Dhirendra Kumar in  another case, opened a bank accounts in seven banks in Hyderabad at the behest of co-accused Tiwari and was arrested in a cheating case along with Tiwari in Cr.No.92/2013, wherein the accused hacked the mail ID of the victims’ firm and gave directions to their clients to deposit amount to the tune of Rs. 87.50 lakhs in these bank accounts, but were arrested prior to the offence averting a major loss to the  company.

Again after his release, Dhirendra Kumar opened an account in HDFC Bank, Kolkata in the name of Rahul Pandey and supplied the same to Praveen Singh who in turn supplied the same to Nigerians. On 3-7-3015 Nigerians hacked the account of Meeseva and diverted Rs, 20,59,000/- to this account of Rahul Pandey (Cr.No.225/15). Also, the complainant in Cr.No.238/2015 of Cyber Crime P.S., CCS, Hyderabad had deposited Rs.75,000/- in this account on 6-7-2015.  Dhirendra Kumar withdrew the money by giving cheques in Delhi and handed over the money to Praveen Singh deducting his commission of 3%. In turn Praveen Singh handed over the money to Nigerians deducting his commission of 10%. Presently Praveen Singh is absconding, whose arrest may put more light on other gangs of Nigerians involved in such crimes. The offenders will be taken to police custody for further interrogation to elicit more details of the case.

Seized articles:

1. Three laptops one each from two Nigerians and Santosh Kumar
2. Net cash Rs.1,38,000/-
3. USD $ 350/-
4. Neros (Nigerian Currency) 9,000/-
5. Ten cell phones used in the offence.
6. Three net connect dongles/data cards

The Cyber Crime PS team K.V.M.Prasad, Inspector of Police, ASI Dilip Kumar, PCs. Maheshwar Reddy, Feroz, Vijay Muraari and Govardhan cracked this case under the supervision of  Dr. B. Anuradha, A.C.P. Cyber Crime Police Station and the able guidance of  Dr. T. Prabhakar Rao, IPS, Jt. Commissioner of Police , Detective Department, CCS, Hyderabad.

The public are once again cautioned to be alert to such fraudsters/strangers who lure them to deposit huge amounts in the fake accounts on different pretexts of winning lottery, matrimonial alliance etc.

Dated:  18-09-2015

Jt. Commissioner of Police

 Detective Department CCS,

Hyderabad.