The four were brought to Dimapur yesterday from Faridabad and New Delhi for their alleged involvement in the fraud by which cell phone users were duped of huge amounts of money, police said today.
The modus operandi of the gang was to trick unsuspecting respondents of SMS in depositing money through cheques/drafts on the promise that they would get huge amounts in dollars or pounds.
The arrests of four Nigerians, who came to India on business visas, were followed by picking up of two persons on September 29 last year by Dimapur police from Faridabad and New Delhi.
Police had initiated the case following a complaint lodged by a victim from Purana Bazaar area of Dimapur on August 17 saying he was duped off Rs 13,96,550 through the SMS lottery business.
Additional Superintendent of Police I Sungit Longkumer said the complainant received an SMS from one Peter Anderson informing that he had won one million British pounds in a special lottery.
When the unsuspected victim contacted the person through e-mail, he was instructed to deposit Rs 35,000 as clearance fee, Rs 1 lakh for anti-terror certificate, Rs 2 lakh to obtain authority certificate from RBI and Rs 4,61,550 for international/local tax and anti-drug certificates.
The victim was again asked to deposit Rs 1.5 lakh, Rs 2.5 lakh and Rs 2 lakh separately for transaction fee, local taxes and anti-tax certificates respectively in different bank accounts. In this way, the victim already transferred through various deposits a total of Rs 13,96,550.
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