Some alleged notorious internet fraudsters have been arrested by men of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Lagos.
One of the suspected internet fraudster caught by the EFCC
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos zonal
office, has arrested 13 suspected Internet fraudsters for conspiracy,
possession of fraudulent documents and obtaining money under false
pretence.
The suspects are- Badejo Tobi; Abiola Dimeji; Anthony Godwin; Osoba
Adeboye; Adeleken Abiodun and Awokoya Oriyomi Yusuf. Others are:
Oyatayo Ismail; Coffie Meschark; Sylvester Amaddin; Olawale Farouk;
Adeniran Tolani; Taiwo Michael and OyekanmiAyodeji.
They were arrested on Saturday, December 16, 2017 in some parts of
Lagos and Ogun States, following intelligence report received by the
Commission about their activities.
The suspects allegedly confessed to be involved in phishing, love
scam, forgery, spoofing and business email compromise, among other
offences.
Phishing is an attempt to obtain sensitive information such as
usernames, passwords and credit card details (and money), often for
malicious reasons, by disguising as a trustworthy entity in an
electronic communication.
Spoofing, on the other hand, is a type of scam where an intruder
attempts to gain unauthorized access to a user's system or information
by pretending to be the user.
Some of the suspects, who live flamboyantly without any known
sources of income, were said to have bought houses and exotic cars from
the proceeds of their criminal activities.
They were allegedly found to be in possession of forged contract
papers of multinational oil and gas companies, banks’ instruments and
forged data page of international passports of foreign nationals, among
other documents.
Other items recovered from the suspects included laptops, flash
drives, modems, one Range Rover SUV, one Toyota Highlander, Two Toyota
Corolla and one Toyota Camry.
The suspects will soon be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded.
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