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Nigerian Scammers, Yahoo Boys Impersonating American Soldiers Fighting In Afghanistan Arrested

yahoo boys impersonating american soldiers arrested

Nigerian Scammers, Yahoo Boys Impersonating American Soldiers Fighting In Afghanistan Arrested In Rivers State

The EFCC today paraded 10 Nigerians suspected to be internet fraudsters, yahoo boys for impersonating American soldiers fighting in Afghanistan.

The suspects were paraded at the commission’s head office in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.

Head of operation Nnaghe Obono Itam said the suspects impersonated American soldiers fighting in Afghanistan to defraud American citizens.

Itam said the suspects used American tunes to extort money from their victims and warned the public against releasing their account numbers to persons.

He said:

“We have noticed that within the last three months, we have the issue of yahoo yahoo boys who appeared to have resurfaced again.

“I am glad to say that with the partnership of the Federal SARS we were able to apprehend some of them”

“The most interesting aspect of it is that we still find people that fall prey to this scam.

“We have Nigerians who pretended that they are American Soldiers that came from Afghanistan and were talking to the Americans as if they are Americans soliciting for fund”

“They extorted money from them through I-tunes. The kind of the I-tunes is $100. They find it difficult to collect the money from Nigeria but they collect I-tunes from them and dispose it online in dollars”

“We have four of them in our custody. We still have others who pretended to be American soldiers working and talking to their victims that there were lots of mineral deposits such as gold.

“They contact people online in China asking them to come and buy the mineral deposits.

“In Nigerian they collect N5, 000 each from the unsuspecting public, which they receive from banks from Nigeria.”

He said that the Commission made recovery of cash and forfeitures to the tune of N1,674,891,899 , $552,368.55 and 5,225 euros while it secured 33 convictions in the year ending.

3 Comments

3 Comments

  1. Lola Adegbola

    December 20, 2018 at 5:38 PM

    See their leg. Lazy youths. I don ‘t know why you have chosen the path that will put your country of birth to shame.
    I hate all of you with passion

  2. iron bar

    December 20, 2018 at 6:35 PM

    shebi na rivers state dem catch them…glad they recovered a lot from them.kukuma throw them inside the atlantic..case closed

  3. Janice Dodd

    December 30, 2018 at 1:08 AM

    It’s about damn time they caught these scammers. They have scammed innocent people of every thing they had

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