Nigerian man has been arrested in India for allegedly duping a lonely 64-year-old woman of Rs 8 lakh.
According to the Times of India, the woman from Parnasree, who started spending hours on Facebook during the pandemic, ended up walking into a trap set by the Nigerian national, working with an Indian fraudster.
The woman approached police in April and the accused, identified as Young Emeka, was finally arrested on Saturday, May 6, 2023, from the outskirts of Delhi.
The detective department and Delhi Police crime branch had to storm a neighbourhood in Chander Vihar in the dark to arrest the accused as the cops were initially stopped by residents.
According to DC (cyber) Atul V, Emeka, posing as a British man, named Eric James, struck up a friendship with the woman on the online platform.
As they ostensibly grew close, Emeka reportedly offered to send the woman a gift, which he claimed, consisted of foreign currency.
Shortly, he reportedly told her the Customs had seized it as a "duty" of Rs 7.9 lakh had not been paid. The woman was reportedly convinced to pay the pending "Customs duty" and within a week, she lost all her savings, police said. Once the money was gone, the accused cut off all ties with her.
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