Rachakonda: In November-2020 the victim person came in contact by accepting a friend request with one unknown female ‘Sophia Alex’ through Facebook request and both started chatting via WhatsApp/Voice calls. Meanwhile ‘Sophia Alex’ narrated a story that she was born and brought up in Australia and now in London of UK and having a daughter. Also, she told me that she is coming to visit Hyderabad in a few days. All of sudden she told that she arrived in Mumbai-India, after some time the complainant received a call from an unknown lady who introduced herself as a Customs officer-Mumbai and said that Mrs. Sophia Alex has brought 75,000/- Pounds cash, Gold Chains, and Mobile Phones in her luggage and asked to transfer amounts towards Yellow Taxes and other charges. Believing it to be genuine the victim transferred a total of 3.4.83,000/- in multiple transactions. Later he realized and approached the Cyber Crimes Police Station Rachakonda and requested necessary action
Basing on the contents of the complainants’ report, a case vides Cr No 600/2020, U/s 417, 419,420 IPC. and Section 66-C and 66-D of IT Act was registered on 28.11.2020 and was taken up for investigation.
During the course of the investigation based on the technical and electronic evidence collected the hideouts of the fraudsters have been identified in New Delhi. A team lead by Mr. R. Venkatesh, Inspector of Police, Mr. CH. Praveenkumar-RSI and staff of Cyber Crime Police Station raided those premises and arrested the five fraudsters of African origin namely 1)Akpalu Godstime. 2)Adjel Gift Osas, 3)P. Ehigiator Daniel, 4)Nkeki Confidence David, and 5)P. Kromah Oyibo N and brought them on transit remand and is being produced for judicial custody.
The Seized articles are as follows:
1)5 mobile phones
2)5 Passports
3) Wifi broadband Router and other incriminating materials.
The Details of the accused:
A-1- Akpalu Godstime S/o Ghaakpalu, Age: 26 years, Native of the Republic of Ghana, with Passport No: G1738550. He is born and brought up in NIGERIA but he arrived at IGI Airport in New Delhi with a REPUBLIC OF GHANA passport on 14th March-2019 on @e-VISA/Tourist VISA and later on he renewed it as BUSINESS VISA. He is the mastermind behind this case, He contacted the victim under the disguise of a lady, Ms.Sophia Alex. He creates several Facebook profiles with fake details and sends friend requests to his targeted persons. He downloads different European based Male; Female pictures from Facebook and uses them in his fake Facebook profiles and cheat. He destroys his used Phone and SIM card soon after the amount transferred from victims to his accounts. He controls the remaining and as per his plans, they play their roles, cheat the innocent and loot Lakhs of Rupees.
A-2- Adjel Gift Osas S/o Adjel, Age: 27 years, With a Liberian Passport No: PP0038710. He is actually born and brought up in NIGERIA arrived at IGI Airport in New Delhi with a “REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA” passport on 11th January-2020 on @e-VISA Tourist VISA and the same is found to be expired as of now. He is the friend of Al-Gods time and he along with A4, A5 took a rented flat and gave shelter to the remaining accused. He managed to get a (WIFI) broadband connection with fake documents to commit many cybercrimes.
A-3- Nkeki Confidence David S/o Nkeki Confidence, Age: 27 years. A native of the Federal Republic of Nigeria with Passport No: A108264081: He is born and brought up in AGBOR of NIGERIA he arrived at IGI Airport at New Delhi with “FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA” passport on 16th September-2019 on BUSINESS VISA. He procures SIM cards on fake IDs and providing the same to Al-Gods time and assisted in committing many cybercrimes.
A-4- P.Kromah Oyibo N S/o Kromah, Aged: 24 years, with Passport No: PPO017114: He too is born and brought up in NIGERIA but he arrived at IGI Airport at New Delhi with “REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA” passport on 12th January-2020 on @ e-VISA/Tourist VISA and same is found to be expired. Previously he visited Angola of Central African country. He is good at Indian accent and contacts the victims and acts as Customs officer and convinces the victim by sending packed luggage photos to victims make them believe to be genuine, and cheat the innocent and make them transfer the amounts into different Accounts in the name of Customs Tax/Yellow charges, etc., and committing many cybercrimes.
A-5- Ehigiator Daniel S/o Ehigiator, Age: 29 years. A native of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, with Passport No:A10636250: He is born and brought up in NIGERIA he arrived at IGI Airport at New Delhi on 21st Jully-2019 on a “MEDICAL VISA”. He is a patient with Arthritis and he procures the different bank accounts of the unknown through mediators on a commission basis and collecting the fraudulent amounts as per the guidance of Al-Apkalu Godstime.
Al-Akpalu Godstime is controlling the remaining accused and as per his plan, he assigns roles to his roommates (AZ to A5) to cheat the innocent and to loot Lakhs of Rupees. It is found that their involvement in 3 more cases at Cyber Crime Police Station of Hyderabad (FIR Nos 310/2019, 735/2019, and 1428/2020) besides some more cases yet to be identified.
The Fraudsters are using the Dingtone app (to display their targeted country code) to cheat the innocent. The Fraudsters were spending lavishly with the +cheated amount. They celebrate parties frequently in their rented flats which they designed as cabaret/nightclub. The Fraudsters are cheating the innocent in the name of valuable gifts/Parcels soon after developing friendship through Facebook.
The Advisory by the Police to the public:
Citizens are requested
- Not to believe the unknown messages or friend requests on Facebook.
- Not to believe any gifts from the unknown in the name of friendships on Facebook.
Not to download any application without knowing its purpose and genuineness.
Not to transfer money to unknown person’s accounts even for checking.
- Your accounts may be hacked by the fraudsters through the applications which you download without the knowledge and thereby get cheated The arrested persons are being sent to judicial custody today and will obtain police custody for further investigation.
Under the Direct Supervision and Leadership of Mr. Mahesh M Bhagwat IPS, Commissioner of Police, Rachakonda, with the guidance of Mr. P. Yadagiri DCP Crimes and Mr. D.Srinivas Add DCP Crimes, Mr. S. Harinath Asst Commissioner of Police Cybercrimes the case was investigated and detected by Mr. R. Venkatesh Inspector of police Cyber Crimes Rachkonda.
Our Citizen Reporter
B. Bharath Reddy
Telangana
