India, Aug. 12 -- LUCKNOW It began with a Facebook 'friendship' with a woman who claimed to be from England and ended with a Lucknow youth allegedly losing Rs.68 lakh to a sophisticated cyber fraud network, according to the UP Special Task Force.

The STF has now arrested a 37-year-old Nigerian national allegedly wanted in the case, unravelling the chain of deception that investigators said was built around a fake foreign identity, promises of expensive gifts and repeated demands for money.

Nwogu Obed Osinachi, a native of Imo State in Nigeria, was arrested from a rented accommodation in Delhi's Burari area on Tuesday, STF officials said. Investigators allege that he was part of a network that created fake social media profiles using pho...