These days,
everyone is in a hurry to 'blow', but only few understands that diligence is
the right way.
The Ibadan
Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday
took over five suspected internet fraudsters arrested by men of the Oyo State
Joint Security Task Force, 'Operation Burst' for further investigation.
The names of
the Yahoo Boys were given as;
Oyewole
Oyeleye Olatunji (28), Adeniran Adeyinka Yusuf (29), Samuel Olumide Adeola
(29), Israel Adeola (24) and Olorunyemi Savior Imonah (24) were arrested March
13, 2017 during a routine surveillance at Ladoke Akintola University of
Technology (LAUTECH) Ogbomosho.
They were
thereafter interrogated at the Operation Burst headquarters, Agodi where they
confessed to have defrauded some American women through various romance scam
using different dating sites. They also confessed to have obtained different
sums from their victims.
At the point
of arrest, four HP Laptops, three Nokia phones, four I phones, one Infinix Hot
Note Phone, a Flash Drive and four Military camouflage T-shirts were recovered
from them.
Investigations
have also revealed that the suspects have various incriminating documents in
their Laptops and Phones. They were posing on the dating sites as American
Soldiers and using different identities to defraud unsuspecting American
Ladies.
Oyewole
confessed to have been posing as Billy Philip, Johnson slowpoke and Montegro
respectively. According to him, he collected itune cards from one Stephanie and
has been using the card to chat with Holly Donis, Dona Rissmiller and Mona
Venziano among others who were also Americans.
Adeniran also
posed as Cheryl Ann and Cindy Grant on Facebook and engaged unsuspecting ladies
in dating. He had also used the medium to defraud and obtain Dollars from one
Cherly Chambers.
Samuel has
been posing as Gome, Rundell, and Klaus. He confessed to have collected itune
card and different sums of dollars from Linda and Patricia on a dating site.
Israel had
online affairs with Jeannie Mae Sherman and obtained different sums running
into several thousands of dollars and itune cards from her and another One
Thousand, Two Hundred and Fifty One Dollars itune cards from Lritz Ortiz. While
Olorunyemi using the names Terry Elizabeth and Bunt Janice Muriel had also
swindled unsuspecting victims to the tune of Two Hundred Dollars and Three
Hundred Dollars itune cards.
The suspects
will be charged to court as soon as investigation is completed.
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