{"id":24467,"date":"2014-03-20T11:41:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T10:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=24467"},"modified":"2014-03-20T11:51:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T10:51:29","slug":"efcc-press-release-efcc-arrests-4-undergraduates-3-others-for-internet-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/efcc-press-release-efcc-arrests-4-undergraduates-3-others-for-internet-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"EFCC Press Release: EFCC Arrests 4 Undergraduates, 3 Others For Internet Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"messagecontent\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"messagebody\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<div>\n<div id=\"id_532a01245cc3f1a05573442\">\n<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested four undergraduates and three others for alleged involvement in Internet scam.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>They were arrested in two different locations in Ibadan, Oyo State.<\/p>\n<p>The undergraduates are: Otuyalo Damilola, a 400 level student of Computer Science of Lead City University, Ibadan; Adegbuyi Michael, an undergraduate of University of Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia; Ibrahim Aruna, 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<br \/>\nThe other two suspects: Damilola and Michael were picked up in a rented apartment in Oluyole Estate, Ibadan, Oyo State.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Two other suspects: Damilola and Michael also confessed that they were into Internet scam to make ends meet. According to Damilola, &#8220;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&#8221;. He also admitted that he had been in the business since 2010.<\/p>\n<p>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. &#8220;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,\u201d he said. He disclosed that his specialty was lottery scam.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>They will be arraigned in court as soon as investigations are concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson Uwujaren<br \/>\nHead, Media &amp; Publicity<br \/>\n19th March, 2014<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested four undergraduates and three others for alleged involvement in Internet scam. 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