Nigerian Black mailers defraud two Bhutanese

Phuentsholing, August 19: The Bhutan Police arrested two Bhutanese with two boxes of fake hard currency in Phuentsholing.

According to Police sources one of the arrested is businessman while the other is an employee of Bhutan Power Corporation. They were arrested on charges of “attempt to counterfeit”.

The two Bhutanese had traveled to Malaysia for transaction after receiving e-mails from fraudsters who claim they were Nigerians. The arrested were convinced of transferring US$ 0.8 million and US $ 10.00 million to their account.

The two men had paid US$14,000 to the fraudsters in a hotel in Malaysia. Later it was known that except for a few genuine notes, the rest were all worthless paper,” the police told.

Scam mails that requests to claim for lottery winning notification saying that their agent will help facilitate the release are most common these days.

Informal reports received through reliable sources informed Bhutan News Service that two more Bhutanese victims of the scam were charge sheeted before the court. Bhutan News Service /Binod Sanyashi.