in internet scam in Enugu State.
The
suspects, Solomon Uchendu, Ndubisi Agu and Uchendo Chikwadu, were living at No.
4 Coal City University Close, Independence Layout, Enugu.
One of
the suspects, Solomon, who is currently undergoing the mandatory National Youth
Service Corps (NYSC), in Akoko, Ondo State, confessed that he had about seven
different email accounts registered with different names.
Solomon,
further disclosed that most of his victims were from the U.S., Canada and
Germany.
According
to him, “One Patricia from Canada gave me $1200USD; Larisa from Germany gave
him $300USD; Ethel from the U.S. also gave me $300USD. All of them know me as
Lincoln, but they don’t know that I live in Nigeria.”
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The
second suspect, Agu, a final year student of the Enugu State University of
Science and Technology (ESUT), Enugu said he realized $13000USD between 2013
and February, 2014 from some of his victims across the world.
The third
suspect, 22-year-old Chikwadu, a native of Imezi LGA Enugu State, confessed
that he had three fake drivers’ licences, which were procured in the names of
John Omoaroijake, Gary Harry and Chikwadu Uchendu at a cyber cafe on Airport
Road and at the licensing office at Jakpa Road in Warri, Delta State.
Chikwadu said
he met one 32 year-old nurse, Grace Talves of Blackpool, United Kingdom on a
dating site.
The
suspect, who claimed to be Harry Phillp, 42, thereafter, began to send love
scam mails and pictures to Talves, a British divorcee and mother of one, who is
currently in Nigeria for an engineering job.
He stated
that he duped her £500, an Ipad and a Mac Air laptop.
The
suspects were arraigned before Justice D. V.Agishir of the Federal High Court
sitting in Enugu, Enugu State for offences bordering on obtaining by false
pretence and Advanced Fee Fraud on Wednesday, February 3, 2015.
Justice
Agishir adjourned the case to February 10, 2015, and ordered that the suspects
be remanded in prison custody.
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