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By John Ogunsemore
The police in India have arrested three Nigerians, Lezhu John, Gibril Mohammed, and Egboola Ekena, for alleged involvement in cybercrimes.
Times of India reports that the trio were arrested in Delhi on Friday, after a young woman, who had been duped of over Rs. 2.62 lakh by the gang, filed a complaint at Cybercrime police station in Vadodara, a city in the state of Gujarat.
The suspects were tracked down based on bank transactions and intelligence and arrested.
An unnamed cybercrime official said the gang had bought over 500 bank accounts in various states.
The official said these accounts were opened with either genuine or bogus documents.
The accounts were used to transfer and siphon the money they duped from unsuspecting victims.
The cybercrimes police said huge sums of money were transferred between these accounts by the gang, adding that efforts are being made to track down those who sold the accounts to the gang.
The police said the Nigerian trio were on expired visas but refused to leave India.
ACP (Cybercrime), Vadodara, M.M. Rajput said, “Their visa expired, but still they chose to stay in India. All three used to commit cyber frauds to earn quick money.”
The police said hundreds of photographs of men and women were found on the mobile phones of the suspects.
The gang allegedly used the photos to open bogus accounts on social media to lure their victims.
The Information Technology Act (IT Act, 2000) in India prescribes up to three years imprisonment as punishment for cheating by personation using computer resources.
