The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) busted four undergraduates, three others for alleged involvement in Internet scam.
The suspects were apprehended in two different locations in the capital city of Oyo State, Ibadan.
Otuyalo Damilola – 400 level, Computer Science of Lead City University, Ibadan;
Adegbuyi Michael – University of Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia;
Ibrahim Aruna – Mineral Resources Engineering, Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State;
Adeosun Matthew – 200 level, Banking and Finance, University of Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State.
Others are Afolabi Ayodele, Balogun Olumuyiwa and Abiola Okunola.
Five of the suspects, i.e. Aruna, Matthew, Ayodele, Olumuyiwa and Okunola, were arrested together at the Iyana Adeoyo Branch of a first generation bank in Dugbe, Ibadan, while they were collecting proceeds of scam via Western Union.
The other two suspects, Damilola and Michael, were picked up in a rented apartment in Oluyole Estate in Ibadan.
The arrest of scammers was possible due to intense surveillance by EFCC operatives.
One of the suspects, Olumuyiwa, admitted conning a white American lady, Sarah Jorth, in a romance scam. He said he was used a false name (Vincente Marco) to deceive her into believing that he would marry her and in the process raked in more than $450,000 (Four Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) from her.
Another suspect, Damilola said he had been “in the business” since 2010. He is doing yahoo yahoo (Internet fraud) to make both ends meet. The scammer also boasted he had purchased his Infinity Jeep and a Honda Accord through the fraud.
Michael confessed that he started Internet scam since 2000 when he was a student at the University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State. Even when he moved to Malaysia, he was still engrossed in the business. "Anytime I come home on holiday, I look for vulnerable targets because the rigour of studies in Malaysia would not allow me to do it there,” he said. He disclosed that his specialty was lottery scam.
Items recovered from the suspects include: three laptop computers; one flash drive; two Visafone modems; one travelling passport; one Infinity Fx 35 SUV, one Honda Accord car and some bank documents.
They will be arraigned in court as soon as investigations are concluded.
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ReplyDeleteFor all those defending the actions of the fraudsters; my prayer is that let they and their generation labour for others to take the proceeds of their sweat. Amen. Let them always invest in the hands of fraudsters who will take all their proceeds. Amen. Let every thing they do - Be it marrying a wife or husband,children's schooling all be wrapped in fraud.Amen. Let them continue to labour for others to enjoy the fruit of their sweat as long as they live. Amen.
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