Indian girl, Nigerian held for lottery fraud
March 3rd, 2011 - 9:25 pm ICT by IANSNew Delhi, March 3 (IANS) A Nigerian man and an Indian girl have been arrested for cheating people by asking them to pay a “transaction fee” for winning a lottery jackpot that never existed, police said Thursday.
The two “duped people by sending fake e-mail saying the recipients had won a mega jackpot worth 750,000 pounds”, Deputy Commissioner of Police Ashok Chand said Thursday.
Nigerian Obaseki Prince, 32, and Boni Sushila James, 26, were apprehended from the Indira Gandhi International airport Feb 24, said Chand. Prince came to India in March 2008.
Police have found their six bank accounts showing scores of transactions.
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