If you wondered where you are receiving fradulent emails about winning millions of dollars and property in the United Kingdom from, the city’s crime branch has the answers.
These SMSes and emails were not generated from foreign soil, but by a group of Nigerians holed up in rented flats in Goregaon (E).
The city crime branch sleuths on Saturday arrested six Nigerian nationals for their alleged involvement in phishing scams and suspects that they would have cheated several people to the tune of lakhs of rupees.
Explaining their modus-operandi, Joint commissioner of police, crime Himanshu Roy said, they were using two different ways to con their victims. They would either send SMSes and emails informing victims about being selected in some lucky draw or the name the victims as beneficiaries of inherited property worth crores, mostly of a rich person in the UK or Libya. They would ask the victims for their email address for further communication.
Once in possession of the email address, they would email the victims and try to convince the victims. They had also prepared bogus certificates of the firms who had allegedly carried out lucky draws and announced the bogus prize money cheques. They would then email these bogus documents to the victim to gain their trust.
The accused would then started demanding money from the victims, saying they would need to appoint a local lawyer to act on their behalf in the UK and release the prize money from the government there.
They would then demand money on various pretexts like clearance from the revenue department in UK, RBI and Customs, take money from the victims and disappear.
The accused also had bank accounts in the city and some local contacts too.
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