The Nigeria Police Force National Cybercrime Centre (NPF-NCCC) has arrested one Odia Theophilus, 24, and Ebo Junior Success, 25, at their hideout in Benin City, Edo State over alleged N91million internet fr@ud.
Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, in a statement on Tuesday, December 27, said the suspects are responsible for computer-related fr@ud, identity th£ft, cryptocurrency fr@ud, and obtaining money by false pretence.
According to the statement, “The duo run a syndicate specializing in defr@uding unsuspecting victims from foreign countries by assuming appealing identities of other persons and promising them romantic relationships, under the pretext of which they defr@ud their victims.
In the extant case, a report on their activities was received from Incheon Metropolitan Police Agency in Korea through the Interpol National Central Bureau that in May, 2021, the suspects approached the victim, one Baek Seong-hee, a Korean national, via a mobile messaging application used majorly in South Korea, in the guise of being a member of the US Armed Forces stationed in Yemen.
The suspect used the pretext of a romantic relationship and defr@uded the victim of 259,637,941 Korean Won (KRW) worth of cryptocurrency equivalent to about 91 million Nigerian Naira.
They confessed to being part of a syndicate responsible for these crimes and stated their roles as accomplices who provide bank accounts for fr@udsters in furtherance of their nefarious activities.”
