A gang of suspected fraudsters have been arrested for allegedly swindling swindled of victims in Ekiti State under the guise of facilitating overseas travels to Australia and Canada. The alleged fraud, said to be in the realm of 300 million naira, was perpetrated under a fake arrangement of facilitating jobs in advance for applicants […]
This may read like the plot of a Nollywood crime movie: Dominic Ngene Joshua was arrested in May 2021 by the police for the alleged diversion of investors’ funds worth over N2 billion. He was subsequently charged to court and granted bail in early 2022. But alas, a few days ago, he was arrested […]
A United States District Court for the Central District of California has finally sentenced Instagram celebrity, Ramon Abass Olorunwa, popularly known as Hushpuppi, to 11 years and three months in federal prison for conspiring to launder tens of millions of dollars from online scams. Justice Otis Wright II, who delivered the judgment yesterday, found […]
A gang of hackers, OPERA1ER, stole at least $11m from companies in Nigeria, Benin, Cameroon, 11 other African countries, and Argentina. This is according to a new report from Group-IB, a cybersecurity firm, entitled, “OPERA1ER: Playing God without permission,” in collaboration with the researchers from Orange CERT Coordination Center. The firm disclosed that digital […]
Contrary to the rumoured sentencing of social media celebrity, Ramon Abbas, popularly known as ‘Hushpuppi’, indications have emerged that the sentencing will be held on Monday. There were reports on Friday that Hushpuppi had been sentenced to 11 years in prison in the United States, but according to the BBC, the report is fake. […]
A United States court on Friday sentenced a self-confessed conspirator in the alleged $20 million fraud allegedly organised by Air Peace CEO, Allen Onyema, to three years’ probation. The court also awarded $4,000 as fine against Ebony Mayfiled, who, had in June, pleaded guilty to the charge of signing and submitting fake documents to […]
The alleged American conspirator said the shame she brought upon her family by helping Air Peace CEO, Allen Onyema, to facilitate the alleged $20 million fraud “was further exacerbated as this story was in the press and on the internet.” ByAde Adesomoju October 27, 2022 Reading Time: 3 mins read An American woman linked […]
A shop assistant, Nojeem Ogundele, who lost N350,000 to a fraudster at Wema Bank, Aiyetoro branch, Ogun State, has accused the bank of nonchalance in helping him to retrieve the money. PUNCH Metro learnt that the incident happened around 1pm on October 12 when Ogundele’s boss, Obi Emmanuel, sent him to deposit the money […]
The federal high court in Lagos has reportedly sentenced nine Ghanaians to eight years imprisonment each for “attempting” to smuggle cannabis into Nigeria. In a statement issued on Sunday, Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesperson, said the convicts — identified as Victor Wuddah, Freeman Gazul, Adotete Joseph, Sottie Moses, Sottie Stephen, Christian Tette, Kanu Okonipa, Daniel […]
The Seme Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), on Friday, said that 16 Nigerians had been deported from Ghana for allegedly committing cyber crimes there. Dr Chukwu Emeka, the Controller of the Command, disclosed this during a news conference in Seme, Lagos State. According to Emeka, these are young Nigerians, who claimed that […]
