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Cyber criminals from Nigeria continue to dupe gullible Internet users by sending emails with lottery results and other bites. The Andhra Pradesh police have busted yet another Nigerian cyber criminal gang that is duping several Indian nationals of lakhs of rupees.
Acting on a complaint by a Guntur resident, a special police team swooped down on a Juhu (Mumbai) hide-out of the Nigerian clique and seized several mobile phones, Internet datacards and 60 SIM cards from four Nigerians. The fraudsters were arrested on Friday evening.
The Nigerian gang had sent an email to one K Lakshmi Narayana of Dachepalli (Guntur district), saying that he had won a cash prize of one million British pounds and that their diplomat was coming down to India to personally handover the prize. They collected a small fee of Rs 8.82 lakhs towards processing and ‘RBI clearance’ charges.
A few months later, he realised that he was duped and registered a complaint with the Cyber Police Department. The police tracked the phone calls to Mumbai and raided the hideout and arrested the four allegedly involved in the crime. They were being brought to Hyderabad, the police said here on Saturday.
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