Photos: EFCC arrests 4 undergraduates, 3 others for internet scam

The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, has arrested four
undergraduates and three others for
alleged involvement in Internet scam.
They were arrested in two different
locations in Ibadan, Oyo State.
The undergraduates are: Otuyalo
Damilola (right), a 400 level student of
Computer Science of Lead City
University, Ibadan; Adegbuyi Michael
(left), an undergraduate of University
of Kaula Lumpur, Malaysia; Ibrahim
Aruna, (centre) 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.
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.
The other two suspects: Damilola and
Michael were picked up in a rented
apartment in Oluyole Estate, Ibadan, Oyo
State.
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.
Two other suspects: Damilola and
Michael also confessed that they were
into Internet scam to make ends meet.
According to Damilola, "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". He
also admitted that he had been in the
business since 2010.
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. "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," he said. He disclosed that
his specialty was lottery scam.
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.
They will be arraigned in court as soon as
investigations are concluded.

Wilson Uwujaren
Head, Media & Publicity
19th March, 2014

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