Hyderabad: The Cyber Crimes PS, DD, Hyderabad City arrested one accused Nwamba Raymond Ifeanyi, a Nigerian on Aprl 20, at Pune who cheated the complainant on the pretext of working in US Army and later lured the complainant that he is sending a parcel containing a box of currency and extracted money from the complainant in the name of custom fee, anti Terrorism certificate and other charges to a tune of Rs. Rs.1,05,500. Incriminating material was seized from the possession of the accused persons.
Facts of the case are that the police received a complaint from a person, stating that one lady Billy Mata sent him a casual message, after that daily she used to send messages to him. She told him that she is working in United states as an American Soldier, and further stated that she found lot of dollars and as she was in army, she could not take the money and wanted to share the money with the complainant as a friend.
Later she will come to India and exchange the currency and for this favor she accepted to give the complainant a share of 30% from the whole currency. Later she asked the complainant’s address to send the box parcel containing the currency to his address. On 30-01-2019 she told the complainant that she is sending that parcel and he can track the parcel. Next day he received calls that the parcel is stuck in Bombay airport Chatrapati Shivaji airport, and he need to pay custom fee of Rs 30500/- anti Terrorism certificate Rs 75000/- etc.otherwise the box will be seized. The complainant transferred the money. Again they called the complainant and warned to send the money as soon as possible otherwise Mumbai police will come to the complainant’s house and they will arrest him. Hence the complainant came to PS with a request to take necessary action as per law and to restore his money.
The offender created multiple social media accounts and contacts the victims on pretext of friendship, army soldier, love etc. Whenever shows interest,, he takes them into confidence and later offers a fake parcel containing valuable gifts to victims. He then impersonates as Customs Agent, banker etc and insists them to deposit money to clear taxes to receive parcel. In this regard the general public is advised to not to believe such Unrealistic offers made by un known persons in guise of friendship and love and never deposit money to receive any Parcel or valuable items .
The team headed by Inspector of Police Ch Gangadhar consisting of team members S.I, Venkatesham, PCs Chandra Shekar, Sunil Kumar, Sandeep have arrested the accused.(NSS)
