A gang of Nigerian nationals who allegedly defrauded numerous business people in the city and throughout the Sta
te by promising them high returns on their investments have been apprehended by the Greater Chennai Police’s Cyber Crime Wing in Tamil Nadu, India.
On March 23, 2023, the police detained the four suspects who were operating in Kharghar, a Navi Mumbai neighborhood, and transported them to Chennai.
The four males, identified by the police as Okories Godswill Sainasa, Uche John Imeka, Godwin Immanuel, and Eposie Uchenna Stanley, worked in teams and initially contacted the merchants via LinkedIn, according to the police.
The victim, a businessman from Kolathur, was approached by one of the teams who had a bogus profile photo of a white woman with the name Nora Morrison from Canada on WhatsApp.
She presented herself as the CEO of a Canadian pharmaceutical company and offered a lucrative commission for the delivery of herbal oil. The others then made contact with her.
The businessman transferred money online in December 2022 for 33 lakh rupees to the account provided by scammers in order to buy oil from Delhi and ship it to Canada. He didn’t get the commission he was promised, and because the company backers cut off communication, he lost his money.
In response to a complaint, a special police team under the direction of inspector T. Vinodhkumar of the Cyber Crime Wing examined the call logs, emails, and other electronic communications and located the suspects close to Mumbai.
Mr. Vinodh Kumar stated that “our team conducted an investigation for ten days with assistance from Navi Mumbai police and searched the suspects’ homes in the Kharghar police station boundaries and detained four of them.”
The officer described the gang’s strategy, saying that it consisted of four teams acting as CEOs, buy managers, suppliers, and quality control. All teams were actually Nigerian nationals working out of a Navi Mumbai home. They never placed voice or video calls to Chennai-based victims.
Those who had registered their information on business portals and social media platforms and were engaged in the import-export business were their primary targets, he continued.
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