Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),
have traced N7, 453, 799.00 to the bank account of a Nigerian undergraduate
posing as US army officer on a dating site.
The undergraduate, Obohor
John Damilola, 26, a student of Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, was arrested by the Ibadan Zonal
Office of the EFCC. He was accused of internet fraud.
The Commissions said that Damilola specialized in fleecing
unsuspecting victims on military dating sites while posing as Nigeria-based US
Army Officer by the name Sergeant Frank Mcghee. It was gathered that after he
was arrested, the EFCC operatives recovered one voter’s card and a debit card
bearing Obohor John Damilola from him.
The EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, said: “The Commission got
wind of his fraudulent activities through series of intelligence reports on his
suspicious transactions in one of the branches of an old generation bank in Ado
Ekiti, through which he received about N7, 453, 799.00 from victims. The victims include one L. D
Marte who lost N6, 216,732 to the suspect. Others are P. Martinez, N672, 887.00;
E. Rosales, N30, 065.00 and R. Rosario, N534, 115.00.”
Obohor, who allegedly
confessed to the crime, claimed he was forced to embrace the scam to raise
money to finance his education. He will be
arraigned in court as soon as investigation is completed.
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