Wire Wire 'Yahoo boy' nabbed in bank while trying to withdraw £30,000
The suspect reportedly defrauded a UK citizen of a sum of £30,000 after pulling off an internet dating scam.
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An internet fraudster, Fidelis Iruedo was arrested for a scam involving the sum of £30,000.(Instagram)
A 'Yahoo boy', Fidelis Iruedo has been apprehended by representatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), while trying to withdraw a sum of £30,000 from a bank in Abuja.
The
arrest was made on Wednesday, January 24, 2018, according to local
media. Iruedo had reportedly acquired the amount through an Internet
romance scam carried out against a citizen of the United Kingdom.
A petition submitted to the anti-graft body by the Nigerian High Commission, London on behalf of the victim Alan Digweed, had ensured his arrest.
It was alleged that he met the UK man on a dating site match.com while pretending to be a woman named Tracy Anderson under whose name he secured a British passport.
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According to reports, items recovered from the suspect include "several scam letters, 3 flash drives, 1 iPhone and a laptop computer."
He is expected to be arraigned in a court of law as soon as investigations are concluded.
Another Yahoo Boy
In September 2017, A Nigerian man, Alexander Akinyele, said to be a notorious Internet fraudster popularly called Yahoo-Boy, was found guilty and sentenced to jail for two years and four months by a Preston Crown Court in the United Kingdom.
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Alexander Akinyele will spend the next two years in jail in the UK(Mail Online)
Mail Online
reported that the 37-year-old Akinyele had pleaded guilty to 10 fraud
offences bordering on a Computer Misuse Act Offence and possession of a
false ID with intent to commit a crime.
The
fraudster was caught after he allegedly threw a wallet full of bogus
credit cards out of his window when NCA officers arrived to arrest him
at his house on Doncaster Place, Barrow-in-Furness.
The
version of Internet fraud that has earned Nigerians a reputation across
the globe started in the final third of the 1990s. Sometime after Yahoo Mail
was created in 1997, scammers found that they could replace their
hand-written letters with the freedom and immediacy of electronic mail
messages, and they moved in droves.
Internet
fraud picked up circa 2002 in Nigeria and grew to become a menace for
better part of that decade. Yahoo Yahoo is no longer in its heyday but
there are still many criminals lurking on the web trying to dupe people
of their hard earned money.
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