Couple held for duping people on social media

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Couple held for duping people on social media

Thursday, 20 September 2018 | Staff Reporter | NEW DELHI

Dwarka District's Cyber Crime Cell employees have arrested a couple, a Nigerian national and his wife from Assam, who duped people by befriending them through social networking sites and pretending to send them expensive gifts. The accused Ifeanyi Joachin Nwafor's wife would then call the victims impersonating Custom and Income tax officials and ask for clearance fees. Police recovered around Rs 6,69,000 from the accused persons.

“A complaint was received from a female social worker who alleged that she was duped of Rs 1,22,600.The complainant alleged that some months ago, one United Kingdom-based George Moor became her Facebook friend. He requested her to accept few gifts for poor people in India,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Dwarka District) Anto Alphonse stated. 

The complainant revealed that she paid Rs 1,22,600 in two installments on July 10 and July 11 as clearance fees for the gift, to a woman who claimed to be from Custom Office in Mumbai and Income Tax department. On subsequent cash demands she found it suspicious and filed a complaint, the DCP added.

“During investigation, police team obtained mobile numbers of accused persons and analysed their call detail record, International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) and noticed that the accused frequently visited Assam. The passenger list was obtained and on the basis of technical surveillance and local intelligence, accused Nwafor from Nigeria and his wife a resident of Assam, were arrested from Chanakya Place1, Dabri, New Delhi,” the DCP revealed.

“On sustained interrogation, both accused disclosed that they approached people through Facebook, WhatsApp and other online social media sites.  The accused had several fake accounts through which he tricked people into believing that he was sending them expensive gifts. The accused's wife would impersonate a Custom Official and ask them for convenience fee,” DCP said. 

Cash Rs 6,69,000 cheated from different persons were recovered by the police staff. Mobile phones, jewellery, laptop, dongles, ATM cards, transaction slips and more were also recovered from the accused persons, the DCP added. 

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