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Cyber Fraud: Nigerian citizen cheated more than 100 Indian women by becoming a British businessman. He used to target unmarried women.
Cyber fraud: A 29 -year -old Nigerian citizen from Tilak Nagar in West Delhi was arrested by the police on Monday and busted cyber cheating. He is accused of cheating more than 100 women across India by calling himself a British -based Korean businessman. Police said Stephen alias KC Dominic was arrested from his rented house. Regarding the functioning of Dominic, the police said that Dominic used an app that helped users to practice languages by chatting with original speakers around the world. This app targeted unmarried women and won their trust. Police said that after this he claimed to be stranded on immigration with checks or documents of large value. His colleagues used to take the form of officers through phone calls to demand money, which the victims used to transfer digitally.
British businessman told himself
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Shahdara) Prashant Gautam said that Dominic used to present himself as a British jewelery businessman Duck Young, settled in the UK. The accused used to implicate women with false promises of personal relations and business partnership. The matter came to light when on September 24, a woman named Anjali lodged a complaint that she was cheated with Rs 48,500. According to the police, she met Duck Young through the app, who later claimed that she was detained at Mumbai Airport for traveling without medical facility cards. After this, the complainant got a call from two Indian numbers, where the callers described themselves as an immigration officer and asked for money for his approval. The DCP said that after transferring money through UPI, Rs 2 lakh more was sought from him. When the victim refused, the accused stopped all kinds of conversations.
Accused caught through call records
In this case, a case was registered at the cyber police station in Shahdara and a team was formed to find the cheater. Investigators investigated call records, bank details and social media accounts before detecting dominic in West Delhi region. Police said that a mobile phone with fake profile and chat with more than 100 women has been seized from him. During interrogation, Dominic revealed that he had entered India on a six -month tourist visa using a passport received from Ivory Coast in 2019, as Nigerian citizens were facing obstacles in obtaining Indian visas. Police said that after the end of the visa period, he remained illegally here and turned to cyber fraud when the money was over. Based on the inquiry, the police is trying to arrest other members of the gang.
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