The Enugu
State Police Command, yesterday said it has arrested two suspected Internet
fraudsters who created a fake Facebook account using the profile of the Enugu
State Deputy Governor, Mrs Cecilia Ezeilo.
The state
Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, a superintendent of
police, who disclosed this in a statement gave the names of the suspects
as Richard Onyema, 36, a native of
Amokohia in Imo State who resides at No 20 Mbano Camp, Obigbo Port Harcourt,
Rivers State and Richard Odinaka Amadi, 40,
a native of Mbaitoli in Imo State
who also resides at Omagwa, Rivers State.
He said the
suspects specialised in the use of prominent persons’ profile to open Facebook
accounts with a view to defrauding unsuspecting members of the public.
Amaraizu
disclosed that the suspects, who created the fake Facebook account of the
deputy governor allegedly used it to dupe unsuspecting members of the public to
the tune of N635,000, as they promised to help their victims get contract
awards.
He said the
two “have been in the business of creating fake Facebook accounts of any identified
prominent /eminent persons and use same to lure unsuspecting members of
the public into believing that they are the person that
they are impersonating and present a contract scenario in which, through the
process, their victims are duped.
Amaraizu disclosed
that the suspects were nabbed on October 2 in Rivers State through intelligence
by the operatives of the Anti-Kidnap Unit of the Enugu State Police Command.
He said the
suspects who are now helping the operatives in their investigations have regretted
their action, blaming it on their continual quest to get rich quick.
“They further
revealed that what they do is to create a Facebook account of prominent
government/eminent persons and pretend to be that person and use same to
defraud people by asking them to pay some amount of money for jobs and
contracts through a certain bank account
that they will provide,” the PPRO said.sunnewsonline
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