The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibadan zonal office, has arrested two suspected internet fraudsters who specialised in stealing people’s identities online to defraud foreign nationals.
The suspects, Babatunde Akeju and Toba Agbanah, were arrested at different locations in Ibadan following intelligence gathered on their involvement in internet frauds.
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Item recovered from them at the point of arrest were one IPhone X-max and one Toyota Venza from Akeju, while Agbanah was in possession of one Toyota Venza, one Toyota Camry, two Macbook, one Apple Ipad, one IPhone Xmax, one IPhone 5, one Infinix phone, two hard drive, and one HP printer.
According to a statement by the agency’s spokesperson, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, “after diligent examination of data and documents retrieved from suspects, the commission was able to establish enough ground for prosecuting the suspects for acts contrary to the provisions of Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention) Act, 2015, and would be accordingly charged to court soon.”
Akeju was known for “mining information from online sites and was in possession of personal information and addresses of several Americans who have fallen victims to his fraudulent acts at different times.
“The suspect usually operated with two email accounts – one personal and one other supposedly official – to penetrate his victims and dispossess them of their hard-earned money.”
The spokesperson stated that Agbanah “admitted in his confessional statement with the commission to be falsely representing himself as one Chris Dan, a 40-year-old Briton, working with the United Nations.
“He confessed to have used the white man’s picture to lure his victims into romantic relationships and thereafter solicit for money from them allegedly to enable him to pay for his flight ticket to pay them scheduled visits. After much familiarisation, he would then devise other tricks to swindle them the more,” the statement disclosed.
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