Members of a Nigerian cyber fraud group purchased hundreds of bank accounts across several Indian states as a result of police investigations into their arrest, according to an India Times story.
The gang allegedly transferred and syphoned money from unwary victims using these accounts, according to the police.
The group possessed information about more than 500 bank accounts, we discovered. According to them, they paid money to other gangs to get the accounts. Both authentic and fraudulent documents were used to open these accounts. An official on cybercrime said.
Police also said that these cybercooks moved enormous amounts of money from one account to another. Now, investigators are attempting to find the gangs that sold the Nigerian group the bank account information.
Gibril Mohammed, Lezhu John, and Egboola Ekena were taken into custody by police on Friday.
They were apprehended in Delhi after being located using intelligence and bank activities.
“They decided to remain in India even after their visa expired. To get quick cash, all three of them used to perpetrate crimes and scams, according to M. M. Rajput, ACP (Cybercrime).
Additionally, Indian police claimed to have discovered hundreds of pictures of men and women on the accused’s cell phones. To entice their victims, they created fake social media profiles using pictures.
When a young woman complained to the nation’s cybercrime police station, the scam was exposed.
The group had conned the woman out of more than Rs 2.62 lakh.
