It is the end of the road for two Nigerians who
have been scamming people using fake lottery in
India.
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Police have arrested two Nigerian nationals and
one of their Indian accomplice for duping several
people through fake "lottery", and recovered Rs 4
lakh cash from them.
Efforts are on to arrest two more members of the
gang, including another Nigerian, who have
cheated people by telling them that they have
won lotteries, Deputy Commissioner of Police
(North) Jatin Narwal said.
Rs 4 lakh cash, 26 ATM cards, 25 PAN cards, 32
cheque books of different banks, five SIM cards
and three mobile phones were recovered from the
accused, he said.
The Nigerians -- Nnaemaka Agbo (35), Kingsley
(32) were arrested on July 15 and their
accomplice identified as Waris Khan (22) was
arrested on July 14 after a case was lodged at the
Sadar Bazar police station on the complaint of
Bhupender Singh, he added.
The complainant had alleged that he received an
SMS on June 26 that he had won USD 5 lakh in a
lottery after which he deposited Rs 95,000,
demanded as various charges, in different bank
accounts in the first week of July, the DCP said.
Singh said he developed suspicion when he was
asked to deposit Rs 2,86,000 more following
which he approached the police, Narwal said.
A police team was formed and the accused were
tracked through surveillance and phone number
tracking. Waris was arrested from Jamia Nagar
and his interrogation led to the arrest of Agbo and
Kingsley who lived in Khanpur, he said.
Waris is a native of Bareilly and had allegedly
opened several accounts in the names of persons
of his village.
The accused duped people by asking them to
deposit money in bank account numbers provided
by them to get the lottery amount purportedly
won by them, Narwal said.
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