Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC have arrested a 26-year-old suspect, Udochukwu Ugochukwu Simeon for allegedly posing as a staff of the anti-graft commission.
The suspect allegedly cloned the Commission’s e-mail address, and used same to defraud unsuspecting victims.
The Commission’s Head of Media & Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren in a statement obtained by ABN TV said 26-year-old suspect created an Outlook email account of the Commission, “efccnigeria.org.ng@outlook.com” and a webmail, info@efcc-nigeria.org.ng which he uses to impersonate the EFCC.
He added that investigation by the Cybercrimes Unit at the Commission’s headquarters, Abuja indicates that the suspect also uses the two fake e-mail accounts to send messages to his victims, while posing as an officer of the Commission trying to help his victims recover their stolen monies.
Before his arrest on April 21, 2021, the suspect had already received over $3,000 (Three Thousand US Dollars) from some of his victims, the Commission says.
Ugochukwu’s activities amount to forgery, identity theft, impersonation and cybersquatting.
The statement says he will be charged to court upon the completion of the investigation.
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