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Three Nigerians residing in India have been arrested by the police in India for alleged cybercrime in Mumbai, India\u2019s largest city.<\/p>\n

According to a report published by The Times of India on Thursday, the Nigerians and four others were arrested for hacking into over 2,000 bank accounts.<\/p>\n

The suspects are Idrish D\u2019Costa, Sinedu Christopher, Ifaain Odhu (all Nigerians); Irfan A Dehmukh, Tabiz Deshmukh, Rajesh Gaikwad, and Nizamuddin Shaikh.<\/p>\n

It said the investigation kicked off after a city-based doctor, Tejas Shah, complained that that over Rs 2 lakh were transferred from his account.<\/p>\n

The Indian assistant commissioner of police, J M Yadav, said, the accused were arrested on Saturday by the Ahmedabad city police department for hacking into over 2,000 bank accounts and transferring rupees after creating a fake webpage of the Income Tax Department.<\/p>\n

According to him, they lured victims across the country by promising income tax (IT) refunds.<\/p>\n

The police boss further said the seven accused allegedly targeted 4,727 people across India, of which over 2,500 were duped.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey first sent a web link to the victim through SMS, promising to get IT to refund. When the victim clicked the link he was directed to a `phishing\u2019 page (a fake webpage) resembling the webpage of the IT Department.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the victim filled in the name of his bank, he was directed to a fake webpage of the bank where he was asked to fill in all the details of his bank account,<\/p>\n

\u201cThe victim was then sent a link of a mobile app as the last stage of getting a refund, which, when downloaded, enabled the fraudsters to hack into the victim\u2019s mobile phone.<\/p>\n

\u201dWhich was then used to obtain the password for net banking. Then the money was transferred from his account to a dummy account,\u201d the ACP said.<\/p>\n

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