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Jan 05, 2022
New Delhi, January 05(ANI): Delhi Police has busted a gang involved in hacking WhatsApp and then committing fraud by impersonation. Two Nigerian nationals, Okoye Simeon and Ugo Chukwu have been arrested in this case. 04 mobile phones, 02 laptops and sim cards used in committing the offence were also recovered from their possession. A case was registered in PS Parliament Street on the complaint of a senior officer of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. The complainant alleged that somebody hacked his WhatsApp account and impersonated him by using his profile photo. He further alleged that hackers also demanded money from many persons from his contact list showing the urgent requirements of medicine pursuant to which one of them transferred a sum of Rs 75,000 to the hackers. With the help of technical surveillance, the location of the hackers was traced to the Uttam Nagar area of Delhi. Thereafter, a raid was conducted at the traced location and two accused were nabbed. On sustained interrogation, it was revealed that Okoye Simeon was the kingpin of this racket. Earlier, he used to do frauds using Facebook and recently, he has started WhatsApp hacking frauds.
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