Master forger was earlier held for cheating by Delhi police
Master forger was earlier held for cheating by Delhi police
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The Women and Narcotics wing of Central Crime Branch (CCB) nabbed a Nigerian along with his Assamese girlfriend for duping persons through online lottery fraud.
The matter came to light after a businessman filed a complaint with the police stating that he had been cheated in an online lottery fraud. Following investigations, the police zeroed in on Abiodun (32), who hails from Okena city in Nigeria, Himakshi Hajarika (27) hailing from Assam and Price Mike, an accomplice who managed to evade arrest.
Police recovered several fake documents from Abiodun, who is also a master forger, and found out that he and his accomplice were staying in the city with invalid documents.
The road to jail
Abiodun was earlier arrested for similar offences by the Delhi police, but managed to get bail and relocated to Bangalore to continue his business.
On the way here, he befriended Himakshi, a call center employee living with her husband and family in Gurgaon. After meeting Abiodun, she left her husband and family and relocated to Banaswadi, where he forged travel documents to rent a house.
Modus operandi
Abiodun created mail ids that resembled the official ids of BMW or those of UK government servants and mailed thousands of random recipients, promising online lottery winners lakhs of rupees.
People responding to the mails were asked for phone details, following which Himakshi would use her call centre experience to convince them to complete certain formalities.
Victims were told to deposit a certain amount of money into an account, which was created by the accused, towards fees for foreign exchange.
"Once the money was deposited to the account, Abiodun used to transfer the amount electronically to another account," said Alok Kumar, joint commissioner of Police. The police believe that Mike is hiding in the city and are currently trying to trace him.
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