Yahoo Boys Scam Foreigner Of €15,000, Victim Travels Down To Arrest Them In Nigeria
The operatives of the Imo State Police Command have arrested
some Nigerian men after they defrauded a foreigner to the tune of €15,000.
The men are
reportedly undergraduates of a university in the state and they are identified
as Nicholas Lambert 22; Collins Njoku 22; Bright Chukwuezi, 23; and Chukwuemeka
Ononiwu, 27 and their victim identified as Dane, Jeanette Brunsma
Parading Lambert
and his accomplices, the state Commissioner of Police, Dasuki Galadanchi, said
11 laptops and 20 phones of different brands were recovered from them.
The CP said the
suspects engaged in “advanced fee fraud, otherwise known as yahoo-yahoo to
defraud the Dane.”
He said:
“After
defrauding Brunsma of the €15,000, the suspects made a fresh demand of €1,500.
“The prime
suspect, Lambert, met the victim on Facebook, bearing a fake name, Johnson
Mills, in order to commit the crime.”
Explaining how
the suspects were arrested, Galadanchi said the victim flew into the country
and lodged a complaint at the state command headquarters which led to
investigations by the police.
He said the
victim’s statement was followed with “a digital construction analysis,” which
led to the arrest of the suspects within 24 hours.
The CP said:
“The suspects;
Nicholas Lambert, aka Johnson Mills of Onumonu Street, Owerri; Collins Njoku of
Umudim Umuduruonyeoma, in the Ikeduru Local Governmrnt Area; Bright Chukwuezi
of Umudim Umuduruonyeoma and Chukwuemeka Ononiwu also of Umudim Umuduruonyeoma,
were arrested on September 3, 2018.
“They were
arrested by a combined team of operatives of Scorpion Squad and Monitoring Unit
of the command for advanced fee fraud.”
“The main suspect
who claimed to be a US Army Sergeant by name Johnson Mills (Nicholas Lambert)
serving in Kabul, Afghanistan, and his friends, who claimed to be Red Cross
agents, were arrested in Imo State.
“We swooped on
them at their hideout in Umuodu Mbieri, in the Mbaitoli LGA after the victim
lodged a formal complaint to the police.
“The suspects
have made useful statements to the police, confessing to have defrauded
Jeanette Brunsma of Ringwey 10,Weiloo, Netherlands, of the sum of €15,000.
“The exhibits
recovered from the suspects include 11 laptops and 20 phones of different
brands.”
The prime
suspect, Lambert, admitted he committed the crime.
He said:
“I met Jeanette
on Facebook; I claimed to be a US solider to defraud him of €15,000.
“After the
initial payment, I demanded another €1,500, after which I was arrested by the
police in my hotel room.”
He said the
other suspects were not aware that he made another demand on the Dane.
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