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Yahoo Boys with 37 Fake Email Accounts Jailed in Port Harcourt
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Justice P.I. Ajoku of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has convicted and sentenced one Silvar Meche Uzoeto (aka. William Parker) to one year imprisonment for impersonation and possession of fraudulent documents contrary to Section 22 (2) (b) (i) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention) Act, 2015, and punishable under the same Section of the Act.
He was convicted on Wednesday, July 13, 2023, after pleading “guilty” to the one count charge brought against him by the Port Harcourt Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
Cybercrime: Thirteen Convicted in Oyo, Ogun …Forfeit Cash, Vehicles to FG
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The Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction and sentencing of thirteen cybercriminals to various jail terms.
The convicts were arraigned before Justices Ladiran Akintola and A.O. Lajide of the Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan and Justice B.B. Adebowale of the Ogun State High Court, Abeokuta, Ogun State on one count charge each, which bordered on cybercrime.
Three Internet Fraudsters Convicted in Abuja
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abuja Zonal Command, on Thursday, July 13, 2023, secured the conviction one Ahuakagha Obiajulum Alex. He was prosecuted before Justice V.C. Gaba of the FCT High Court, Kuje-Abuja on a one count charge.
The charge reads, ‘that you, Ahuakagha Obiajulum Alex sometime in 2020 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory committed an offence of cheating when you dishonestly induced one Judith, a citizen of the United States of America to deliver to you the sum of Two Thousand United States Dollars in the guise that you are in a romantic relationship with her, a fact you knew to be false and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 320 (a) of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 321 of the same Act”.
GIABA Seeks Training Partnership with EFCC
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The Acting Executive Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulkarim Chukkol on Wednesday, July 12, 2023 expressed the Commission’s capacity to train delegates of member countries of the Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA).
The EFCC boss who spoke through the Commandant, EFCC Academy, Commander of EFCC, Ayo Olowonihi, while receiving a team from GIABA on training partnership assessment visit to the Academy, said “it is in our interest as a sub-region to collaborate and co-operate and since GIABA is there as the coordinating body it can partner with the EFCC Academy to achieve this one purpose of capacity building and learning to do things together by member countries.”
Seafarer, Artisans Jailed, Forfeit Valuables over ‘Yahoo-Yahoo’ in Kwara
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A 24-year-old Seafarer, Aladekomo Ayodele Samuel, from Ado-Ekiti in Ado-Ekiti Local Government Area of Ekiti State is to spend time in Nigerian Correctional Centre alongside four others convicted for offences bordering on internet fraud.
The others are one Mustapha Bashir, a 24-year-old electrician from Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State; Sulyman Mustapha, a barber from Okene Local Government Area of Kogi State; Adedayo Samuel, who also claims to be a barber and one Adeoye Quadri Olalekan, who claims to be an HND II Student of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin.
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