Juliana Francis
Two brothers, Joel and
John Onwochei, have been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission, EFCC, for posing as a Briton to defraud a Zambia lady via Facebook.
Acting Head, Media & Publicity, EFCC, Tony Orilade said: “Investigation
into the activities of another syndicate traced to the Nova Estate in Apo, led
to the arrest of Joel and John (both brothers). John the younger of the
brothers confessed that he got involved in Internet fraud as a student of the
Delta State University.”
John successfully
defrauded Miss Lynese from Zambia, using Facebook, under the guise that he was
Carlos Gomes, a British citizen. Among items found in his possession were an iPhone
6 and iPhone 7, and he confessed to having a landed property in Benin, Edo
State, all of which he acquired for N1 million he made from Internet fraud.
Orilade said: “Two laptop
computers, a white Range Rover Sport, white Mercedes Benz E350, and a grey
Toyota Camry were recovered from him. His brother, Joel confessed that he got
into yahoo-yahoo through his brother, and asked him to teach him how to go
about love scam.”
Joel reported said: “Thereafter,
I tried to create an email account, but I was unsuccessful. My brother bought a
wrist watch worth N6, 000, for and I’m willing to forfeit it to the government
if given the opportunity.”
The two brothers were
arrested along with other suspected Internet fraudsters in separate raids
carried out at various times across a number of locations in Abuja, the Federal
Capital Territory.
The suspects: Chemezie
Valentine Ezeife, Onwochei Chibuzor John, Onwochei Joel, Marvin Nwankwo, Prince
Ojenike, and Jude Olatekobowale, were arrested following a tip-off.
“Ezeife was arrested on
January 16, 2019 at the Life Camp residential area in Abuja, following
intelligence reports of shady activities traced to him. Among items recovered
from him were a Mercedes Benz C300, Toyota Camry and Lexus Jeep, Seagate hard
drive, four laptop computers, an ECOWAS international passport, various wrist
watches, two iPhones and blackberry phones, and a Samsung phone. Several
suspicious emails were also traced to his account,” said Orilade.
The residence of a
seventh suspect, Owootomo Tomilola Sunday, 22, was also raided at the Gwarimpa
axis following tip-off of his shady activities, and is suspected to be into “Yahoo
Plus”, also called “Wire-Wire.” He is involved with hackers who compromise
e-mail of multinationals and other prominent companies.
Among items recovered
from Owootomo who is currently at large, are two Bugatti cars, a Mercedes Benz
GLK, Mercedes Benz car, Porsche $49,000 and duplex worth N300 million.
They will be charged to court
as soon as investigations are concluded.
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