EFCC Arrests Suspected Female Bitcoin Scammer In Delta

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a 24-year-old woman named Queen Jonathan for alleged involvement in a Bitcoin scam in Oghara, Delta State.

Ms. Jonathan was also arrested for internet fraud on Friday 26, 2012 by men from the Benin Zonal office of the commission.

A statement by the spokesman of the commission, Wilson Uwujaren says that the suspect presented herself as one Sophia Rodriguez, an expert in Bitcoin, on Instagram, to defraud unsuspecting victims.

Items recovered from her include an Infinix Hot 8 mobile phone.

The suspect has made her statement and will be arraigned in court as soon as the investigation is completed.

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