With the arrest of a 32-year-old Nigerian man, Kanpur police claim to have busted a gang that allegedly duped people their money on the pretext of customs duty on expensive gifts from abroad.
Police said the foreign national used to make friends on social media, promising to send them expensive gifts. Later, another gang member, posing as a customs officer, would call unsuspecting victims, asking them to pay customs duty on the gifts they sent. Police said that after collecting the money, the accused used to block the phone numbers of the victims and they were not traced.
The arrested Nigerian has been identified as Okuwarima Musa. Sub-Inspector Santosh Pandey of Nawabganj police station said that he was caught from Noida. Two mobile phones, a laptop and a passport were recovered. “We suspected that the gang was of three members. There were about ten persons in it,” said Kanpur DCP Salmantaj Jafartaj Patil.
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