Igwe Festus Abraham
A notorious Nigerian cyber criminal has been arrested for duping
more than 90 people across India through fake lottery scams. The man
identified as Igwe Festus Abraham had a staggering 14 accounts in
reputed banks.
His luck ran out after the cyber crime cell started investigating a
case registered at Alankar police station in which a woman was cheated
for Rs 16 lakh after she received an email saying that she had won a
lottery of GBP 500,000 and she was made to make several payments on
various pretexts, right from processing fees to chemicals needed for
cleaning foreign currency notes.
On Tuesday, a team arrested the Abraham, a resident of Malviya
Nagar in Delhi. According to The Indian Express, the woman had received
an email in September last year from a dubious mail address
rbiforeignexchangeonlinedepartment@hotmail.com saying that she had won a
lottery. Subsequently she was asked to make payment by electronic
transfers to various bank accounts.
In December last year, she was told that one Abraham was coming to
meet her and she was asked to make arrangements in a hotel for him. On
December 6, he met her in the hotel and showed a suitcase, which had
bundles that ‘looked like currency notes’ but were wrapped in green
polythene.
The man told her that the chemical needed to clean the notes had
spilled and she would have pay more for its purchase. The man even gave
her two real currency notes, which she got converted into rupees, thus
trusting the fraudsters. The woman realised that she had been duped
after an mail address given by the fraudsters for final payment of the
lottery money bounced despite several attempts.
Based on phone numbers used by the suspect, account numbers to
which the payments were made and a photo of the suspect clicked by the
complainant, cops zeroed down to Igwe.
A police team nabbed him in Delhi on Tuesday and he was brought to
Pune on Wednesday. Police said Igwe had 14 accounts in HDFC, Canara,
SBI, ICICI, Syndicate and other banks.
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