Lucknow: Nigerian fakes FB identity, dupes doc

Lucknow: A Nigerian and his aide were arrested on Saturday for duping a Lucknow-based woman doctor and social worker of Rs 1 crore. The duo was arrested by UP STF from Charbagh railway station. The woman had lodged a case with cyber police station against them.
Hormi KC
The accused were identified as Amra Chukbu Roland of Nigeria and Hormi KC of Manipur.
Amra Chukbu Roland
SSP STF Abhishek Singh said the accused had swindled Rs 70 crore from about 100 persons across India.
He said that Roland had created a fake Facebook profile in the name Dr Steve George and claimed to be a cardiologist in Britain.
“He befriended the woman doctor on Facebook and offered to help in social work. Later, he claimed to have sent her jewellery as gift but it was seized by the custom officials at the airport. Rolland asked the woman to loan her Rs 2.5 lakh to be paid as fine for getting it released. He asked her to deposit the money to the account of Hormi KC in Delhi. Rolland kept seeking money from the woman on various pretexts and this way took Rs 1 crore from her which were deposited in different bank accounts of the miscreant in the past four months,” said SSP STF.
The STF were tipped off about the miscreants’ arrival to the city by train and nabbed them as they deboarded at the station.
Explaining their modus operandi, STF officials said that Nigerians operating such gangs befriend unemployed northeast Indians as many of them have similar names and then lure them to join the gangs by offering money. Nigerians then use bank accounts of these natives to get the money deposited from the victims.