Operatives of the Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC have arrested three internet fraudsters popularly known has Yahoo boys after defrauding unsuspecting people to the sum of N120 million
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Office recently arrested The likes of Odemwingie Ede Joseph, Idede Stanley and Oseyomwanbor Marvelous are currently cooling their heels at the Ibadan office of the EFCC for offences bordering on stealing and obtaining money under false pretence running to the tune of over N120,000,000.00 (One Hundred and Twenty Million Naira).
The suspects, Ede 59, Stanley 20 and Marvelous 19 were arrested respectively following a petition received by the commission from an anonymous complainant who alleged that sometimes in October 2016, he made payment for a trip in one of the Nigerian Airlines (name withheld) via their website for himself and three of his colleagues from Lagos to Port Harcourt. Whilst trying to pay, he had difficulty with the platform and decided to call the contact Number on the website.
According to the petition, the fellow who attended to him via the call instructed him to proceed to ATM and effect a transfer which he did immediately and transferred the sum N120,000.00 (One Hundred and Twenty Thousand Naira Only) to an account allegedly belonging to one Oghenetejiri Stanley Idede. After payment, all efforts to get his payment approved seemed abortive. It was at this point that he realized that he had been duped, hence he proceeded to lay his complaint to the EFCC.
Preliminary investigation by the operatives of the Commission revealed that one Success Osemwingie who was the primary suspect alongside his cohorts; Idede Stanley and Oseyomwanbor Marvelous were the syndicate behind the fake transaction.
However, investigations further revealed that there are two other suspects: Francis Otagogo Ojemiri and Uhunmwangho Aisosa Charles Who are still at large.
The fraudsters, including those at large, operated over Fifty accounts with different banks with which they use in defrauding unsuspecting victims to the tune of over N120,000,000.00
Inside Source gathered that the fraudsters allegedly hosted a cloned websites of Airlines and other online services providing organizations, to dupe unsuspecting members of the public of their hard-earned money.