7 Nigerians among 11 arrested for net-banking, lottery fraud

Eleven people including seven Nigerian national have been arrested for their alleged role in net-banking fraud and fake lottery scams, police said today.
The arrested Nigerian nationals are Austine Ikechukwu (39), Nwanyanwu Sabinus Oyeyechnkwn alias Onii (28), Ekene Frankline Amanambu (23), Henry Chibuzor (23), Jonathan Ekemita (35) Chijioke Augusutus (33) and Uchechukwu Cajetan (27), police said.
The arrest was made by the Cyber Crime Cell of Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police.
The four Indian nationals arrested in this case are Abhijit Sharma (31) Lalit Malhotra (27), Ganga Arora alias Gagan Deep Arora (32) and Ved Prakash alias Vicky (34).

As per the police, these people operated as a team.
The Nigerian nationals would hack the user id and password of various bank accounts of Indians and then pass on the information to Sonu and Vijay Grover.

Thereafter, Sonu through his other accomplices would siphon off the money fraudulently in different accounts.
These accounts used to be on fake identities or of people who agreed to lend their accounts to Sonu and Vijay on commission. In this case, the account holder provided ATM cards with PIN of such accounts to Ved Prakash, Lalit and Abhijit for withdrawal of the fraudulent money, police said.

"The seven Nigerians were staying in India without valid visa. Some of them were living here since 2009. They kept scanned copies of their visas with them in which they had digitally altered the date of its validity," said Joint Commissioner of Police (EOW) Sandeep Goel.
Other than this, they also sent fake lottery and prize money emails to thousands of people to dupe them, he said.
These people came under the scanner after one Manish Kumar Jain, Director of Siddharth Polychem India Pvt. Ltd lodged a complaint on May 6 alleging that 27 unauthorised online transactions were done some unknown persons from his company's bank account in which around Rs 53 lakh were siphoned off into 12 different bank accounts of different cities across India, police said.

Investigations in this case are on and police is trying to nab the main master minds of this inter-state racket, Sonu alias Sahil S Poddar and Vijay Grover from Mumbai, police said.
The EOW had received another such complaint from one Anandi Paswan, Manager, Reserve Bank of India (RBI), which said that RBI's name was being used in fake and fictitious offers of remittances of funds from abroad.
In a similar case, a complainant had deposited Rs 14 lakh into various accounts for the release of the 'remittances', before he realised that he had been duped.