Delhi Police has busted a gang involved in hacking WhatsApp and committing fraud by impersonation.
The accused, named Okoye Simeon and Ugo Chukwu, presently live in Delhi’s Uttam Nagar area. Both have been arrested in a case registered at the Parliament Street Police station in New Delhi. Four mobile phones, two laptops and sim cards were also recovered from their possession.
A case was registered at the Parliament Street Police Station after receiving a complaint from 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 other people on his contact list showing an urgent requirement for medicine, due to which one of them transferred a sum of Rs 75,000 to the hackers.
During the investigation, all the relevant information about the case was gathered and, with the help of technical surveillance, the location of the hackers was traced. It was also found that a group of Nigerians were involved in this crime. Thereafter, a raid was conducted at the traced location and two accused were nabbed.
During interrogation, it was revealed that Okoye Simeon was the kingpin of this racket. Earlier, he used to do frauds using Facebook and recently, he had started Whatsapp hacking frauds.
