Anti-graft operatives nabs yahoo fraudsters

Operatives of  the anti-graft agency, have arrested five university undergraduates over N16 million internet fraud. According to the EFCC Ibadan zonal office, the five suspected undergraduate are internet scammers who dubiously swindles their clients in huge sums of money during their illegal and atrocious acts. Four out of five of the suspect are from the Federal University of Technology Akure, (FUTA), while the other hails from Adekunle Ajashin University, Akungba, (AAUA) as all institutions hails from the south western part of Nigeria.  According to the anti-graft agency, the suspects were picked up at an off- campus residence  located at Anuoluwapo Close, state line hotel road, off FUTA South Gate, Akure, Ondo State.






They suspects who are between the ages of 20 and 23 include: Adeleke Paul, 21, Adebiyi Tayo Abudu, 22, Akinsanmi Olusola Adeniyi 21, Ogundile Ademola James, 23 and Okali Ugochukwu, 21. The anti-graft agency who showed no mercy at the suspected fraudsters, paraded them with their mane tag and identity for the general public to take note while using that as a medium to warn others who might want to engage in such illicit trade as a way of making quick money. 

The Commission got wind of their activities through series of gathered intelligence. Paul and his co-travelers, who go about with the name Tsunnami Gang and Young Pablo Money allegedly swindled an unsuspecting foreigners and others to the tune of sixteen million naira recently by engaging in fraudulent activities of obtaining money by false pretense through scam mails. Paul is a 300 student of Building Technology while James and Olusola are both 400 level students of Agricultural Resources and Mathematics respectively. Okali is a 200 level student of Urban and Regional Planning, while Adebiyi Tayo is a 300 level Student of Mathematics of the Adekunle Ajashin University Akungba, Ondo State.




At the point of arrest, EFCC operatives recovered a 2006, black Toyota Highlander with registration number (Lagos)  LND 112 EG,  2010 light- green Toyota Camry (Muscle) with registration number (Lagos) AAA 850 EF, laptops, three Apple iPhone 6 and three Blackberry phones from them.  Some implicating documents were also found and downloaded from their laptops.

They are to be arraigned before a court of competent jurisdiction as soon as all investigations are completed.

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  1. So you mean these are the people behind those "Nigerian Prince" emails? Interesting.

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