A cyber fraudster (yahoo boy) by
name Onyebuchi Nwalozie Julius has been arrested by the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission EFCC, in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, for impersonating the Governor
of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Dr. Godwin Emefiele.
Onyebuchi, a native of
Ngor-Okpala in Imo State, who claims to be involved in Estate Management,
confessed under interrogation, that he impersonated the Central Bank of
Nigeria, CBN Governor, Dr. Godwin Emefiele with email account:
emefilegodwin586@yahoo.com and defrauded one Mr. Omar Es Sh Deeb.
The suspects whose specialty is
Business Email Compromise BEC, said his modus operandi involves searching for
email addresses via Google search and sending convincing emails to prospective
victims.
Onyebuchi was arrested on
December 6, 2019, at Owerri in Imo state. At the point of his arrest, the
following items were recovered from him: A HP Laptop Envy with serial number
CND62544TZ; HP Laptop with serial number SCD8022CSF; iPhone X; Nokia phone,
ECOWAS International Passport-55389766, Drivers Licence and a Toyota Venza with
registration No. LSR 23 FQ.
An analysis of the HP Envy Laptop
revealed quite a number of scam emails sent by Onyebuchi to one of his victims,
an Arabian Omar Deeb, with bogus contract proposals purported to have emanated
from CBN, while he posed as CBN Governor. Onyebuchi successfully defrauded Mr.
Deeb who remitted funds, thinking he was actually dealing with the CBN Governor
Dr. Godwin Emefiele.
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