Bengaluru police arrest Nigerian for OLX car sale fraud
- Nigerian posted pictures of others' cars and offered them for sale.
- A localite helped him with getting a sim without any document is also arrested.
- A buyer loses Rs 2.25 lakh before realising the fraud.
- This was not the first time but the duo had committed such crimes earlier also.
FollowA Nigerian citizen in the City has been arrested for selling a car on OLX posting somebody else’s car. Along with him, a local resident has also been arrested for getting him a sim card without any documents, reports Kannada Prabha.
Cyber Crime police have arrested Augstein Anyeva Hojo alias Peter, a resident of Bidarahalli and seized five mobile phones and some documents from him. Jagadish Kumar alias Devaraj of KR Pura is also arrested for getting Peter a sim card without any documents. A complaint was registered by one Syed Shahabuddin that Peter had cheated him of Rs 2.25 lakh in a car sale deal. Cyber Crime Police investigated and tracking mobile phone calls zeroed down on Peter and arrested him.
Two months’ ago Peter had posted in OLX that a Swift car was for sale for Rs 3 lakh. Syed Shahabuddin showed interest in purchasing the car and contacted Peter and a deal was struck. After a couple of days Peter called Syed and said since he had to go abroad, he had parked the car at the airport and to release the car he had to pay a heavy amount and hence asked Syed to deposit Rs 50,000 in his account. Believing him, Syed promptly deposited the amount. Later, in two or three instalments Syed paid up to Rs 2.25 lakh into Peter’s account. After the money was paid, the Peter’s mobile phone went dead.
On suspicion, Syed lodged a complaint with Cyber Crime Police on May 17. After investigation, police tracked down Peter based on mobile calls and arrested him. Jagadish Kumar, a mobile shop owner at KR Pura had provided sim card to Peter without any documents and he also has been arrested. CCB DCP Jinendra Kanagavi told Kannada Prabha that Peter and Jagadish had done this kind of fraud car sale deal earlier also.
In another incident regarding OLX sale, one Madan of Kariyamma Agrahara lost his Duke bike when a miscreant took his bike for a test drive and disappeared. Madan and his brother Naveen are running a hotel in Kariyammana Agrahara. Madan wanted to sell his Duke bike due to financial constraints. He advertised in OLX asking for a price of Rs 1.7 lakh. One Rajesh responded to the post and contacted Madan. After talks the deal was struck for Rs 1.40 lakh. Rajesh said he would take the bike for a test drive and then pay the advance and Madan agreed. Rajesh drove away with the bike. A complaint has been registered.
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Arrested 2 persons in Cybercrime PS Olx fraud case, who cheated a customer to the tune of Rs 2,27,700/ #Bangalore #Bengaluru #Police pic.twitter.com/i1lXcTRsdK
— S Ravi, IPS (@AddlCPCrime) July 5, 2017
