A 38-year-old Nigeria nationwide has been arrested in Faridabad for allegedly defrauding a number of ladies of big sums by posing as a rich businessman on matrimonial platforms and social media.
The accused, recognized as Samuel Ogun, alias Stepney Derrick, allegedly created pretend profiles to focus on ladies looking for marriage.
DCP (cybercrime) Shavya Goyal mentioned he used enticing pictures and fabricated private particulars to construct belief, presenting himself as a global businessman based mostly overseas.
After initiating contact, he would step by step draw victims into emotional relationships and promise marriage.
He would finally ship pretend flight tickets and parcel receipts, telling victims that he was travelling to India to satisfy and marry them.
Police mentioned he would later declare that his baggage or parcels had been detained by the customs division and required pressing fee for clearance.
Victims, satisfied by the narrative, transferred massive sums into a number of {bank} accounts. Losses in such instances bumped into lakhs and crores.
In addition to the matrimonial rip-off, the accused can be suspected of dishonest folks by providing pretend mortgage companies with guarantees of fast approvals at low rates of interest.
Ogun was arrested throughout investigations into two instances registered towards the accused at Noida cybercrime police station.
In one case, a girl was cheated of almost Rs 56 lakh, whereas one other sufferer misplaced round Rs 1.3 crore.
Cases linked to the accused have additionally surfaced in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
Police suspect that a number of comparable frauds could have been carried out throughout completely different states.
On Thursday, March 19, 2026, a police staff recovered 5 cellphones, a laptop computer, a pill, a Wi-Fi router, a dongle, a number of SIM playing cards, international foreign money, and a number of passports bearing completely different identities, together with cast paperwork from his Faridabad home.
Investigators mentioned the accused used a number of pretend identities and passports of various nationalities to evade detection.
When one identification grew to become unusable, he allegedly travelled overseas to acquire one other earlier than returning to India.
Digital proof, police mentioned, indicated he maintained simultaneous contact with 15 to 16 ladies beneath completely different aliases.
Devices seized in the course of the arrest have been despatched for forensic examination for additional leads.
