First-Class University Graduate Jailed For N1.92m Internet Fraud

A graduate of Lead City University, Ibadan, who passed out with 1st-class honors has been sentenced to one-year imprisonment after pleading guilty to a two-count charge of conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretences.

Olakunle Akanni was sentenced on Nov. 4th at the Ikeja High Court in Lagos for defrauding a 77 year-old American woman, Diana Huizenga, of over 12,000 dollars through an internet love scam.

One of his accomplices, Adesina Akinsola, 30, was also given a similar sentence by the judge but adjourned the sentencing of their co-accused, 30-year-old Dele Oshuntogun, till Nov. 17.'

Fraudster Fakes Being In Coma For Two Years To Avoid Court Judgement

A British fraudster pretended to suffer a serious neck injury that left him in a comatose state for two years, Swansea, Wales.

Alan Knight was arrested in 2012 for the alleged theft but delayed going to court for two years. He claimed to be a quadriplegic having no movement from the neck down.

All this time he was living on benefits and “systematically” funneled huge amounts of money out of the elderly neighbour’s bank account which he used to pay for holidays and shopping.

EXPOSED: Dirty Tricks Petrol Stations, Attendants Use To Cheat Customers

The PUNCH has been of help to Nigerians and is at it again, by exposing dirty tricks petrol stations, attendants use to cheat customers.

It looks like a long story but it will save you so much money if you care to read to the end. You will never look at a pump attendant the same way again.

Mrs. Bisola Ayeni, a businesswoman in her early 40s confidently left her house at Egbeda (Lagos) with an almost empty tank heading for Ikeja. The red light of the fuel indicator was blinking nonstop but Ayeni knew the quantity of fuel in her tank would take her to the next available filling station where she had hoped to fill up her tank.

Indeed, as she got to the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Ayeni drove into the filling station and told the attendant to fill her car with N5,000 worth of fuel while she rummaged her handbag to bring out the money as well as pick a call. That was her undoing.

Guy Dumps His Rich Lover At Ikoyi Registry, Steals Her N4m

Uzor Emmanuel, a 45-year old married man with three kids played a fast one on  42-year old  Victoria Adeleye at the Ikoyi Marriage Registry in Lagos on Wednesday.

    The relationship between Victoria Adeleye and Emmanuel blossomed after they met at a church in Isolo.

    As soon as he discovered that Victoria is rich, he rushed and moved into her apartment at Bola Adeyinwa in the Isolo area of Lagos where he started living with her and enjoying her things, while hatching his crazy plans.

    Emmanuel who proposed to marry Victoria on Wednesday, dumped her at Ikoyi Registry and disappeared with the N4m she kept with him. The wedding was subsequently called-off following Emmanuel’s shameful disappearance.

 

Why Peter Okoye Threatened To Expose Bank..

About three weeks ago, Peter Okoye of P-Square took to twitter to threaten to expose a bank over fraudulent transactions. He gave the bank 5 days to return his money or be exposed and sued (Read it here).

Well, five days has passed and Peter hasn't said anything about the issue again...but I just found out what went down...

Will tell you what happened but will leave out the name of the bank. So in May, Peter Okoye found out that millions of Naira had been withdrawn from one of his personal accounts with a bank leaving him with less than N300k.

How Rogue Bankers Steal Customers’ Money Through Online Transactions

The simplification of banking services by technology has brought with hazards, including online frauds, Punch's Ozioma Ubabukoh writes on the increasing rate of tampering with customers’ funds by bank employees.

Cases of internal online fraud committed by bank employees have been on the rise lately. It was gathered that porous data system, coupled with dwindling remuneration in some of the banks, might have been encouraging bankers to tamper with customers’ funds.

Analysts are of the view that the quest to live fantasy lifestyles might have led some of the bankers to engage in such an illicit act. An employee of a new generation bank said many of his former colleagues were sacked within the last two years due to discreet online manipulation of customers’ funds.

Popular General Overseer’s Wife In Baby Making Factory Mess, Escapes To America

Policemen attached to the Special Fraud Unit, Ikoyi, Lagos and those of the Rivers State Police Command, are currently on the trail of a fleeing wife of the General Overseer of a popular Pentecostal Church in the city of Port Harcourt, Rivers state, alleged to be operating the biggest baby factory in the southern part of the country.

The pastor's wife, Emeka Precious Chinyere, was said to have sold babies to desperate women between N2.5 million and N6million. Her beneficiaries, we gathered, come from all parts of the world.

    Her modus oparandi as gathered, included giving desperate women concoction which would make their stomachs to start protruding, until the day of delivery. However, the delivery process is said to shrouded in mystery which the Police is trying to unravel...

Peter Okoye Defrauded By A Bank In Lagos

51-Year Old Woman Who Spent Her Life Savings On Online Tunisian Boytoy, Falls For Yet Another (PHOTOS)

A woman who thought she had found love with a Tunisian toyboy ended up penniless after she spent £18,000 of her life savings on him - but claims to have healed her broken heart after finding love with another Tunisian man online.

Michelle Spencer, 51, starting chatting online to a 22-year-old Rami Selmi, after she divorced her husband of 24 years three years ago.

She was swept off her feet by smooth talking Rami, who showered her with compliments and begged her to come to Tunisia to meet him in person.

How Fake Job Consultants, Racketeers Defraud Jobless Nigerians

I came across this article and though it is a very long write up I decided to share it because I think it is a piece that everyone should read and share, there is a lot to be learned from it.
Read it below:

Like many of his col­leagues, his fear for the future increased in intensity as the passing out parade of his batch, the official closing ceremony for members of National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, inched closer. The staggering statis­tics of unemployed Nigerians, as released by the government recently, coupled with the sac­rifice of his poor parents, who had predictably looked forward to a better life after their son’s graduation, could only accen­tuate Olanrewaju’s (not real name) anxiety.

Olanrewaju, a graduate of Business Administration finally returns to Lagos after his service year to face the inevitable challenge of life after school. A typical day for him began with a visit to a nearby newspaper stand, where he would jot down names and addresses of organi­sations where vacancies existed.

Army Generals Pocketed N6bn Peacekeepers Money – Petition

A powerful but anonymous petition written by concerned Nigerian soldiers who claim that the Nigerian Army owes its officials who have served in various United Nations peacekeeping operations over $43 million has been obtained by Sahara Reporters from insider.

The document also carpets the United Nations, which it alleges may have collaborated with cheating Nigerian army chiefs to divert the allowances of the peacekeepers into their own pockets.

    “It is on record and verifiable that over 3,950 troops who participated in Peace Support Operations in Liberia and Sudan between 2013 to 2014 are still been [owed] various months of allowances amounting to over $43.23m US Dollars which is equivalent to N6,919,168,000:00 Billion Nigerian Naira to date,” the petition said.

Nigerian Agent Caught On Camera Charging To Fix Matches

 

Henry Okoroji

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Just few days after the National Crime Agency (NCA), looked into match-fixing allegations that surrounded the international friendly match between the Super Eagles and the Tartan Army of Scotland, Agent Henry Chukwuma Okoroji has been caught on camera claiming he could arrange a yellow card for more than £41,000 and a penalty for £81,000, during the 2014 World Cup games in Brazil to an undercover reporter of The Sun.

He told the reporter, he could fix matches and organise certain outcomes at the tournament which kicks off this month.
To convince the reporter he invited Super Eagles midfielder Ogenyi Onzai to the meeting, though reports say Ogenyi isn’t involved in the scam) to confirm his authenticity.


Police are currently investigating the video.

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EFCC ARRESTS MAN SUSPECTED OF MURDERING 67-YEAR-OLD GRANDMA IN SOUTH AFRICA (PHOTOS)

Jesse Omokoh

Remember the story of the Australian woman that was found dead in South Africa, in February 2013, the 67 -year- old grandmother from Australia had traveled to South Africa to meet a Nigerian man she met online. She  was found dead under suspicious circumstances in a Johannesburg guest house within days of meeting the man who called himself Jesse Orowo Omokoh.

Jesse is believed to have scammed the woman in excess of $90k. After the woman's death, Jesse, 28, disappeared. Well, after a year on the run, he has been arrested in Lagos.

MAN ARRESTED FOR BLACKMAILING LADIES WITH THEIR NUDE PICTURES

Mr Iweka Nnamdi, a 32-year-old man, a graduate of Nnamdi Azikiwe University has been arrested by the Lagos Police command for allegedly blackmailing and extorting money from unsuspecting female victims.

Nnamdi used multiple Facebook profiles, where he impersonates notable persons in the society such as the Secretary to the State Government Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, House of Rep Speaker Aminu Tambuwal, Michael Adenuga, actor Van Vicker and a host of others, to deceive cheap women.

Here's what Nnamdi do to ladies: "He met a female banker on facebook where he posed as one of the big shots in Nigeria. After chatting with her for sometime, he invited her to a hotel in Ajah on March 14, 2014, where he had her. Unknown to the female banker, a camp coder was placed in a corner of the hotel room, where all that transpired was recorded.

US WOMAN DUPED OF N56M VIA INTERNET LOVE SCAM,POLICE ARREST CULPRITS (PICTURED)

Henry Ogu, loverboy

This is really serious, so people have not learnt their lessons after all the noise in the media about scammers, wonders shall not end!

Premiumtimes reports that the Police Special Fraud Unit, SFU, has arrested a 29-year-old man for allegedly operating an internet fraud syndicate that specializes in defrauding unsuspecting wealthy foreign women who are in dire need of husbands.

Henry Ogu, and his accomplice, Yunusa Okonkwo, 42, were arrested after defrauding a New Jersey lady of US$350,000 (about N56 million) via an internet dating site.

In a statement on Wednesday, the SFU said that it received an e-mailed petition from a U.S. citizen, whom it did not name, sometime in April 2013. The petitioner alleged that she met Mr. Ogu on a dating site.

Delta State Bursary Fraud Whistleblower Arrested And Handed Over To Delta State Government Officials

Ambrose waving as he is taken away

An ex-student of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Mr. Ambrose Ezeanwani,  who exposed a racket in the students’ bursary scheme in Delta state was handed over to men from the Delta State Government this afternoon after days of illegal detention in Lagos.

Police officers in Sabo Station  handed him over after the Delta State officials visited to ask for his transfer to Asaba, Delta State where he will be most likely tortured and “tried” for revealing the fraud perpetrated by officials of the state.

 Ezeanwani was President of the National Association of Delta State Students Union at the University of Lagos. During his tenure, he revealed that the bursary system was fraught with fraud, which he said was being perpetrated by men in the scholarship board in Delta State.

Osaze Odemwingie Get To His Money Back From Fraudster

 Nigeria forward Osaze Odemwingie will have his stolen money, totalling around £22,000, refunded after the fraudster Claire Duke pledged in the Stafford Crown Court to pay back over £80,000 to her victims.


According to Daily Mail, the 38-year-old mother of two, whose business offered concierge services and organised holidays and trips abroad, pleaded guilty to seven counts of fraud on Wednesday, including one relating to the Stoke City striker.

FRAUD ALERT!!!: SPREAD PLEASE AND HELP SAVE THE NEXT VICTIM

Please  let’s all be careful especially those who are always interested in buying parcels of land, following strange agents to unknown places to check out apartments or cars for sale. This is a great eye opener !!! Always ensure you transact business through a known and registered office, it’s safer. God help us all.

This is in memory of our friend and colleague;

FACTS.
On the night of Friday, the 7th of March 2014, our friend and colleague disappeared.
He was with a friend in his rented apartment in Port Harcourt on that night when he received a call. After answering the call at about 8pm, he told his guest he had to dash out to meet some colleague and that he would be back shortly. That was the last time anyone saw him alive, he met with the persons but never returned.

Yahoo-Yahoo Turns Diabolical! (MUST READ)

According to the confessions of an alleged internet fraudster Yahoo Yahoo has gone beyond the ordinary, the 25-year-old young man the fetish now plays a big roll in the business.
The suspect who simply gave his name as Chidi, disclosed that what people used to know as yahoo yahoo, a term used to defraud unsuspecting and gullible persons,especially foreigners, through the internet, has gone beyond mere conversation and  emotional chat.

He disclosed that yahoo  plus  is the trend in cybercrime world today, as operators  have resorted to using fetish means to  hypnotize their victims in order to get what they want from them.

NNPC-RECRUITMENT FRAUD‏ ALERT

Even the tragic immigration recruitment exercise is now being used as a format to scam people oh,please shine your eyes because these scammers are not joking!

''Hi Stella,Please I got a call from a Mr Bernard Umeh saying that he is an NNPC staff. I really do not know how he got my name and phone no. He asked if I knew anyone with an Accounting ,Business Admin, Public Admin degree.