Photos: EFCC arrests 4
undergraduates, 3 others for internet scam…
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is an EFCC press release. Find it below...
The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested four
undergraduates and three others for alleged involvement in Internet scam.
They
were arrested in two different locations in Ibadan, Oyo State.
The
undergraduates are: Otuyalo Damilola (right), a 400 level student of Computer
Science of Lead City University, Ibadan; Adegbuyi Michael (left), an
undergraduate of University of Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia; Ibrahim Aruna, (centre)
a student of Mineral Resources Engineering, Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti,
Ekiti State and Adeosun Matthew, a 200 level student of Banking and Finance,
University of Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State. Others are Afolabi Ayodele, Balogun
Olumuyiwa and Abiola Okunola.
Five
of the suspects: 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, Ibadan, Oyo State.
The
arrest of the seven suspects followed intense surveillance by operatives of the
Commission who had been on their trail for sometime. 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.
Two
other suspects: Damilola and Michael also confessed that they were into
Internet scam to make ends meet. According to Damilola, "I am into yahoo
yahoo (Internet fraud) and I do this to earn a living. I make use of a laptop
to access Internet, to look for vulnerable white men and women who will fall
for my scam. I acquired my Infinity Jeep and Honda Accord car through the
fraud". He also admitted that he had been in the business since 2010.
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 traveling 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.
Wilson
Uwujaren
Head,
Media & Publicity
19th
March, 2014
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