INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Kathmandu, January 7
Metropolitan Police Crime Division has arrested five members of a fraud ring, which swindled many people of hefty cash
on the pretext of transferring ‘amount of lottery the victims won online&.
They were taken into custody yesterday.
The alleged online
scammers are Sharmila Kumari Shrestha, 28, of Rautahat, Alankar Jain, 29, of Morang, Navin Agrawal, 49, and Anand Agrawal, 52, of India, and
Sushil Gurung, 40, of Kathmandu.
They were running lottery scam on social media including Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber and IMO
Messages sent randomly to internet and mobile users said that the recipients had won substantial sum of money in an online lottery
Message of winning the lottery enticed gullible recipients to reply the scammers and send them certain amount of money through wire or
banking channel ‘for tax clearance& to claim the lottery or the parcel as demanded by the scammers.
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