Delhi Police South District arrested a foreign national for cheating a senior police officer
New Delhi, May 1
The Delhi Police South District arrested a foreign national for cheating a senior officer in the pretext of helping him during the Covid 19 pandemic work.
The accused was identified as Tochukwu Christian Nwasu from Nwasu Benin in Nigeria. He is living in India for the last five years
DCP South Atul Thakur stated that the accused used to cheat people by impersonating himself as friend or known to the victims. He at first used to hack old emails of the targeted persons or spoofed the number of a targeted person and thereafter, he got numbers of his regular contacts or friends from social media.
The police said that on April 19, a senior police officer reported about cheating of Rs 97,000/ from his Central Bank of India, Defence Colony branch bank account by some unknown fraudster on pretext of requesting to send money to his close USA based friend through WhatsApp call. However, after cross checking with his friend, he realised that he had been cheated.
The Cyber Cell South District began probing the case.
The police officials stated that the team analyzed the bank statement and immediately froze it the beneficiary's bank account and successfully stopped further drain out of the cheated amount.
During the course of investigation,the team analyzed beneficiary account details and other documents related to the account.
The police found out that the accused was located in the area of Chhaterpur and Uttam Nagar.
The officials said that during the interrogation, after impersonating as a known person and getting the target's number and contact through social media, he used to call his targets through VOIP calls or send emails by impersonating himself as friend of his targeted persons and asked them to send amount to his hired bank accounts which are opened on the basis of fake addresses KYC.
The officials added that in the present case also he has accepted his active role as mastermind but due to the freezing of the alleged beneficiary bank account, he could not withdraw the cheated amount.
The police seized mobile phones including phone and SIM used in the present case, ATM cards (in the name of different persons), cheque books and laptop.
The police are further investigating the case.
