A team of Nigeria Police Cybercrime Unit,lNTERPOL, National Central Bureau have arrested 3 suspects for cyber-related offences including advance fee fraud,money laundering and romance scam.
Samson Inegbenesun 30, Blessed Junior 32 and Mohammed Zakari 36 all male from Uromi in Edo State were arrested in Uromi, following investigations into suspected fraudulent online procurement and supply of Covid-19 protective mask, received through the INTERPOL NCB, Wiesbaden, Germany.
Investigation reveal that Samson Inegbenesun is an Internet fraudster and a member of a Turkey based online scamming syndicate..He supplies foreign and local bank accounts to receive fraudulent funds and use same as conduit to other feeder accounts police said they have recovered from him,a building worth N20,000,000,00, a Toyota RAV4 worth N6 500,000,00 and a Toyota Matrix 2002model valued at N2,000,000,00,,which he bought with the proceeds from fraud
Blessed Junior, the second suspect was said to have returned to Nigeria from Italy in February 2020,but maintains close contacts with his Italian associates.lnvestigationr reveals that he has made over One Hundred and Twenty Million Naira ( N120,000,000,00) from cyber fraud.. investigation further showed that he recently received the sum of€52,000 recently from his criminal associares in Italy as commission for active involvement in in an International Cybercrime deal, also owns a petrol filling station established with proceeds of the crime.
Mohammed Zakari,an expert in Internet fraud identity theft and impersonation.claims to be a British Citizen and also poses as one Kelly Galk on online dating apps which he uses to carry out romance scams and to defraud unsuspecting members of the public locally and internationally.reports indicate that he has made millions from the cybercrimes since he joined the gang..
