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The mother of three took to her Instagram page on Saturday, where she raised the alarm.
The convicts included, Omotosho Olorunyomi, a graduate of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, (LAUTECH) Ogbomosho, Abass Lawal, a student of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Molete, and one Olajide Adegoke.
Operatives from the Cybercrime Section at the EFCC headquarters, Abuja arrested Umar on May 18, 2021 following a petition from a victim whom he allegedly defrauded through a fake employment offer with the Nigeria Customs Service.
The EFCC listed some of the fake Twitter accounts to be @AbdurasheedBawa, @AbdulrBawa and @AbdulRashidBawa1.
The former governor is to be arraigned alongside one Chinedu Okpareke before Taiwo Taiwo, federal high court judge, on a five-count charge bordering on cybercrime.
The minister made the call at the end of a four-day 8th Regular Meeting of the National Council on Communications and Digital Economy (NCCDE) held in collaboration with Imo Government in Owerri.
The convict had entered a plea bargain agreement with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, the prosecuting agency.
In a highly online fraudulent technique known as: “Catfish,” an internet fraudster assumes false accounts on social networking sites for the sake of growing followers and developing online relationships with strangers.
He stated that he has no form of association with the said suspect and does he know him in any way.
With the growing adoption of digital channels and with more people practicing social distancing, due to the COVID-19 virus outbreak, Stanbic IBTC Bank PLC, a subsidiary of Stanbic IBTC Holding PLC, has urged Nigerians to remain vigilant for online scams related to the pandemic.
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, has enjoined members of the public to remain vigilant and take precautionary actions against criminal elements who might explore the emergency situation created by the COVID-19 pandemic to increase and diversify their criminal activities.
Justice Z.B. Abubakar of the Federal High Court, Kaduna on Thursday sentenced Robert Sunday to one year imprisonment for cybercrime.
In his welcome address at the second general meeting of the Nigeria Electronic Fraud Forum in Lagos, Patrick Akinwuntan, Managing Director, Ecobank Nigeria, said cybercrime has assumed a high dimension, stressing that all hands must be on the deck to check the menace.
Felicia Onwuegbuchulam, Director, NCC Consumer Affairs Bureau, disclosed this at the 53rd Consumer Town Hall meeting of the commission held in Oyo on Thursday.
The Kano Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has recovered 690,400 $and N550,692,362 million between January and August 2019.
The Nigerian Communications Commission has said that the National Computer Emergency Response Team will soon be established, to curb cybercrime.
The Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Prof. Umar Danbatta, made the plea in Lagos during the “2018 Annual Workshop for Judges on Legal Issues in Telecommunication”.
This was revealed by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa.
The Nigerian was arrested by Poland’s police in the southwestern city of Wroclaw in connection with alleged cyber fraud and extortion done over the internet