Woman cheated by Nigerian gang

Mumbai, July 20: Here one more victim was unveiled, who was cheated by Nigerian gang in the matrimonial website.

While coming to the details, A 40-year-old woman from Shivaji Park has become the victim of a Nigerian gang fraud that allegedly trawls matrimonial websites. She has transferred Rs.74 lakhs to 10 fraudsters accounts.

In a first, Mumbai police's cyber crime cell has made a popular matrimonial site a co-accused in the current case.The victim filed a complaint with cyber police last week.

In her complaint, the woman said three to four days after she created her profile on the site, she received an email from a man who identified himself as Amar Joshi and claimed to be a UK national. Impressed by his profile and photographs, she shared her mobile number and began to chat with him.

Joshi said that he was an NRI and always wanted an Indian wife. He called her after a few days and said he would fly down to Mumbai on June 10 to fix a marriage date. He even emailed her his flight details. When the woman, who is well-placed in her career, reached the airport to receive him, she got a call from him.

An investigating officer told media "First Joshi said hello and then handed over the phone to a woman who identified herself as a customs official at Delhi airport and said her department had caught Joshi with excess US dollars. She demanded Rs 38 lakh as fine to release him."

The woman transferred the sum into four bank accounts. The next day, Joshi called her again and said he was finally arriving in Mumbai but had now been stopped at the city airport over some other duty. He made her transfer Rs 36 lakh into six accounts and stopped taking her calls.