Noida: The cybercrime police of Uttar Pradesh on Friday arrested a Nigerian youth who has been accused of promising marriage to a female journalist of an English newspaper by posing as an NRI and duping her of lakhs. A senior police officer gave this information. Uttar Pradesh Cyber Crime SP Dr. Triveni Singh said that a female journalist living in Gaur City, Greater Noida had lodged a report at the Cyber Crime Police Station, Sector-36, Noida that she had a friendship with a young man on Jeevansathi.com. Was.
According to the woman journalist, the youth had given his name as Yogendra Jain and said that he is an NRI and currently lives in London. According to the female journalist, the young man promised to marry her and said that his parents live in India, whom he is coming to India to meet. According to Singh, the victim told that a few days ago she received a call from Delhi airport. He told that the caller introduced himself as a customs officer and said that 50 thousand pounds have been found from Yogendra Jain coming to India, which is more than the prescribed limit.
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According to the woman, the caller said that Jain was apprehended at the airport and a customs duty of Rs 10 lakh would be levied to rescue him. According to Singh, the woman journalist claimed that she believed the caller to transfer Rs 1,07,500 to his account. The officer said that after a while the girl suspected that she was being cheated, so she did not give any more money. Also, a report of the incident was lodged at the Cyber Crime Police Station. According to Singh, Inspector Rita Yadav, in-charge of cyber crime police station investigating the case, sub-inspector SP Singh and other policemen arrested the Nigerian youth who carried out the said incident from Greater Noida last night on the basis of an information.
According to Singh, the accused has been identified as Estor Churchill (37), a native of Nigeria. He said that 17 mobile phones, 46 SIM cards, two laptops, computer hard dicks, six internet dongles, ATM cards, cash and forged documents were recovered from Churchill. According to Singh, during interrogation, the police came to know that the accused had been living illegally in India for a long time and had made many people their victims. He told that he used to contact the girls who had registered for marriage on various websites posing as foreign or NRI youths and then used to cheat them in different ways on the pretext of marriage. (agency)