HYDERABAD: The Cyber Crime police arrested four Nigerians in Mumbai who were involved in duping people from the state in the name of lottery prize money. Police also recovered mobile phones, Internet data cards and 60 SIM cards from them. The accused are David Bid Ukatta, Ehiaguina Christian, John Uchechukwov Sebastine and Edeth Sunday. Police shifted the accused to Hyderabad for further investigation into the case. Additional director-general of police (CID) SV Ramana Murthy said on March 17, the complainant K Lakshmi Narayana, a resident of Dachepalli in Guntur lodged a complaint with the Cyber Crime police stating he had received an email from stating his email ID had won the prize amount of $1 million dollars and their diplomat is coming to India to handover the prize money cheque. The mail also asked to send information regarding his address, phone number, PAN etc., which the complainant sent to them. In the pretext of several charges like customs charges, RBI clearance charges, currency conversion charges, anti-terror charges, Lakshmi Narayana paid an amount of around `8.8 lakh in various bank accounts as stated by the fraudsters. Police registered a case under the IT (Amendment) Act 2008 and investigation was taken up. During the course of investigation, the call data of mobile numbers used by the fraudsters for contacting the complainant were analysed and based on their tower locations, a team lead by A Ramulu, inspector of police proceeded to Mumbai and successfully identified the residence of the accused. Subsequently, they conducted searches at the residential premises located at Juhu, Mumbai and recovered mobile phones, Internet data cards and about 60 SIM cards from the four. On their confession, the four Nigerians were arrested on Friday in Mumbai. The arrested are being brought to Hyderabad on a transit warrant.
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