The Abuja Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has turned the heat on internet fraudsters, operating within the Federal Capital Territory, FCT and according to reports, some operatives of the EFCC were injured while trying to arrest some of the internet fraudsters in Abuja.
On Thursday April 25, 2019, the Commission nabbed Mmizoro Chinedu and Utyo Philip, two suspected internet fraudsters at the Nigerian Army Resettlement Estate, Jikwoyi, Abuja.
The suspects were arrested following intelligence report that alleged that they were perpetrating internet fraud. The suspects put up a fight while resisting arrest which resulted in injury on one of the EFCC operatives.
One of the suspects, Mmizoro Chinedu who wanted to conceal evidence against him threw his phone into the toilet but it was retrieved and is currently undergoing digital forensics investigation in the Commission.
Similarly, the zone raided the Kings Court Estate residence of three suspected internet fraudsters.
They are: Odili Augustine, Odili Philips and Elvis Albert. The home of the three suspects was raided following an anonymous tip-off to the commission on the activities of the suspects who were alleged to have swindled unsuspecting victims off their hard-earned money.
Some items recovered from the three suspects include, a white Honda Cross tour, laptops, sophisticated phones and documents of some landed properties.
Internet fraudsters popularly known as yahoo boys have caused lots of problems in the society both in Nigeria and abroad. They have caused lots of havoc that might be very hard to repair. Some of the problems they have caused include:
Damage to National Image, poor treatment of Nigerians in foreign countries, teaching the younger generation how to obtain money illegally, irrational spending and flaunting and putting other people in distress.
These fraudsters dupe any class of people whom they feel will have a lot of cash. They dupe mostly foreigners, both young and old and also dupe organizations as well.
They could use false documents to collect large sums of money from an organization to the organization’s dismay. Most times, Yahoo boys use the weapon of technology and the internet to attack their victims.
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