Nemesis has caught up with a threeman
syndicate specialising in duping unemployed youths. Officials of the
National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), backed by policemen,
yesterday arrested members of the syndicate for attempting to dupe
hundreds of Nigerian youths.The scammers had sent text messages to unsuspecting youths, majority of who are graduates searching for jobs for years, urging them to come for oral interview after which certain demands would be made by them from the jobless youths.
They claimed to have been recruiting on behalf of NEMA, but their interview venue was stormed by the armed policemen and some detectives from the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID). A text message sent to the unsuspecting youth reads: “You have been shortlisted for an oral assessment to review in our NEMA overview job detail on people invited for job interview job detail on 8/14. Time 9 am at 18A Adekitan Street, Opp. Mushin LGA at 9am on 8/4/2014.”
NEMA denied any knowledge of such fake arrangement when the security personnel contacted its headquarters at the weekend. However, police were able to arrest members of the syndicate after careful surveillance. They were initially taken to Olosa Police Station where the DPO referred the case to Lagos Command Headquarters from where the Police Commissioner, Umar Manko, transferred it to SCID.
New Telegraph
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