Four youths from Ahmedabad have gone to Nigeria to take ‘advance training’ in which business number two?

From sextortion to cyber fraud, people are being cyber-frauded on OLX by trying various techniques. Such cases also come up frequently. An investigation by our partner newspaper Times of India has revealed that some youths from Ahmedabad had gone to Nigeria specifically to get training on how to cheat people online.

According to an official, earlier also some Gathiyas from Ahmedabad were traveling to Jamara, Mewat as well as Alwar and Bharatpur to take lessons in online fraud. However, now these people have reached as far as Nigeria to take their advanced training. According to the information available to the police, three to four youths from Ahmedabad went to Nigeria in 2022, and underwent a one-month training there.

How is the target coerced?

In the business of fraud, Nigerian masters prepare people who come to them for training in such a way that these people can make a target and steal a large amount of money from them. In the training, how to trap the target, how to talk to him and earn his trust and if you cannot extort money from a person by giving a lure, how to extort money from him by threatening him is also taught.

Apart from this, these people are also trained on how to create a fake social media profile. Through which they approach their potential target, and lure them into their talk. Mostly prepared after intensive training, these scammers identify themselves as foreigners to the target and then extort money from them by giving them huge lures.

The target is threatened by giving the identity of a government officer

In many cases these sophisticated ghathis are also identifying themselves as customs officers. They threaten to implicate their target in a case and then demand a large sum of money for not doing so. If they want to extort money from a target in America or Europe, these people identify themselves as government officials and threaten the target that if he does not transfer some amount, he will face a court case, and he will have to go to jail. This gang scares, intimidates and annoys the target so much that he gets fed up and pays the amount demanded from him.

These gangs of thugs approach the target using the dark web, leaving even the police at a loss to catch them. According to the police, all the youths from Ahmedabad who came to Nigeria for training settled in Uttamnagar area of ​​Delhi. It was from here that these people set up their own network and looted huge amounts of money by preying on many people. Delhi Police’s cyber crime unit conducted raids in 22 cities across the country last year alone, and arrested as many as 65 people.