New Delhi:
Three members of an international gang of conmen, including a Nigerian, have been arrested for allegedly trying to cheat a man here by sending him fake e-mail messages and asking him to pay money to be able to receive a huge lottery amount, police said on Sunday.
Amanyunose Kingsley Uyi (31), a Nigerian presently residing in Arjun Nagar, Nafees Baig (24) from Uttar Pradesh and Rajpal Tyagi (25) from Panipat in Haryana, were arrested following a complaint by Satish Kumar.
Police have recovered Rs five lakh in cash, one car, six rubber stamps, a money-counting machine, seven mobile phones, two walky-talky phones, 25 SIM cards, seven cheque books of different names and banks and three fake rent agreements from them, a senior police official said.
Kumar, on Friday, complained that he had received an e-mail informing him that he had won 5,00,000 pounds in Coca Cola on-line Poverty Elevation award of Britain on August 12.
"They also asked him to send his address, phone number and other details via e-mail, to which Kumar responded by return mail as required by Dr Mark Jude, the sender of the mail," said Meghna Yadav, Additional DCP South East district.
On August 30, he received another mail from one Frank Paul, Delivery Officer of Coca Cola Company United Kingdom who asked him to deposit Rs 25,000 as custom clearance and other expenses and also gave a bank account number.