Navi Mumbai businessman cheated by four Nigerians

The offence came to light when a Navi Mumbai businessman paid ₹33 lahks to an account the suspect gave for trade in herbal oil in December 2022; the businessman did not get any commission, and the accused went hidden.

The Cyber Crime Wing of Greater Chennai Police has caught a gang of Nigerian citizens who allegedly tricked many business people in the city and elsewhere in the State by vowing good investment returns.

The police charged four of them who were working in Kharghar, a suburb of Navi Mumbai and got them to the city.

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The police told Okories Godswill Sainasa, 32, Uche John Imeka, 47, Godwin Immanuel, 32, and Eposie Uchenna Stanley, 32, were from Nigeria. They operated in groups and phoned the business people first through LinkedIn, said the cops.

One of the groups with a fake profile photo of a white woman in the name of Nora Morrison from Canada WhatsApp approached the target, a businessperson from Kolathur. She asserted to be the Chief Executive Officer of a Canada-based medicine company and offered a fair commission for supplying herbal oil. Then the others got in contact with her.

The businessman made online payments in December 2022 for ₹33 lahks to the account said by cheaters towards procuring oil from Delhi and supplying it to Canada. He did not get any commission as vowed and lost his money as the business supporters went hidden.

Source – TH