Four online fraudsters who duped people of lakhs, held

Four persons, two of foreign origins, were arrested in connection with duping Indians of lakhs of money posting  fake online lucky draw messages.

Nauriddin Zafri, a Cameroon national, Efosa Danial Asamota, a Nigerian national, Ugan Chaudhary alias Ajay Sharma and Sudesh Kumar alias Vinod Sharma were nabbed by a special team of Saket police station following a complaint made on February 2, 2015.

The complainant had received an SMS on her mobile claiming “Your mobile got Rs 5 crores and Rs 15 lakh in Samsung Quiz 2014” and in order to claim the prize she was asked to send her details to an email id.  

The complainant did so and received a confirmation email with a certificate of the winning amount. After receiving this certificate, she had reportedly got a call from one Shweta Sharma asking for her 

bank details to deposit an amount of Rs 4.04 lakhs in different accounts for the processing of the prize money.

The complainant had provided Shweta with all the necessary details and the sum of money was deposited in separate accounts. She was then informed that a representative called Jones would deliver the payment on paying a sum of Rs 4 lakh cash.

The complainant did as directed and Jones handed her the locker box saying it contained the prize money. The complainant, however, on returning home found that the box only contained black papers.

After receiving that, she contacted the people concerned and was informed that the papers are to be washed with a special chemical worth Rs 12 lakhs to turn them into British pounds.

The complainant on realising of being cheated worth lakhs of <g data-gr-id="69">money,</g> filed a <g data-gr-id="67">complain</g> at Saket Police Station. Subsequently, a team was constituted and a trap was laid when Jones had come to deliver the said chemical to the complainant. 

The police also arrested the other three people in connection with the case, said Prem Nath, Deputy Commissioner of Police, South.

On interrogation, the accused perpetrators revealed that they run a racket of duping people on the pretext of winning Great Britain Pounds. The police found 34 fake PAN cards, 28 ATM/Debit cards and other such things used in duping innocent people worth lakhs of rupees.