Hyderabad, March 08: A Nigerian national was arrested yesterday for duping a person from the city of more than Rs 3 lakh in name of an international lottery.
The arrested Nigerian, Ebuka Abana alias Marslin, sent a message to K Srikanth Chary claiming the latter had won an international lottery of 4,50,000 British pounds. Srikanth was lured by the promise of the huge amount and responded responded to the SMS to claim the prize money.
Marslin, a native of Abuja, was a student staying at Vasant Vihar in New Delhi and is one of the many fraudsters who dupe people in the name of winning an international lottery. He collected Rs.3.25 lakh from Srikanth on the pretext of processing fee. The money was credited to bank accounts of the accused in Delhi and Manipur in four instalments.
“Ebuka also promised to supply the liquid chemical which can change black paper supplied by him to real cash and demanded another Rs.3 lakh for that,’’ Cyberabad police commissioner Ch Dwaraka Tirumala Rao said.
Following a complaint by Srikanth, Abana was nabbed at Shamshabad when he came to the city to meet Chary. Police have again asked the public not to respond to messages which claim the receiver has won international lotteries like Oil and Gas UK draw, Coca Cola contest or Microsoft lottery.
—Agencies