The suspects are- Badejo Tobi; Abiola Dimeji; Anthony Godwin; Osoba Adeboye; Adeleken Abiodun and Awokoya Oriyomi Yusuf.
Others are: Oyatayo Ismail; Coffie Meschark; Sylvester Amaddin; Olawale Farouk; Adeniran Tolani; Taiwo Michael and OyekanmiAyodeji.
They
were arrested on Saturday, December 16, 2017 in some parts of Lagos and
Ogun States, following intelligence report received by the Commission
about their activities.
The
suspects allegedly confessed to be involved in phishing, love scam,
forgery, spoofing and business email compromise, among other offences.
Phishing
is an attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames,
passwords and credit card details (and money), often for malicious
reasons, by disguising as a trustworthy entity in an electronic
communication.
Spoofing,
on the other hand, is a type of scam where an intruder attempts to gain
unauthorized access to a user's system or information by pretending to
be the user.
Some
of the suspects, who live flamboyantly without any known sources of
income, were said to have bought houses and exotic cars from the
proceeds of their criminal activities.
They
were allegedly found to be in possession of forged contract papers of
multinational oil and gas companies, banks’ instruments and forged data
page of international passports of foreign nationals, among other
documents.
Other
items recovered from the suspects included laptops, flash drives,
modems, one Range Rover SUV, one Toyota Highlander, Two Toyota Corolla
and one Toyota Camry.
The suspects will soon be charged to court as soon as investigations are concluded
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