2015-02-05 15:05
Enugu - Three students have appeared in court for allegedly duping
foreign nationals thousands in foreign currency through a phony online
scheme.
Solomon Uchendu, Ndubisi Agu and Uchendo Chikwadu have
appeared before the Federal High Court sitting in Enugu, Enugu State for
offences bordering on obtaining by false pretence and Advanced Fee
Fraud.
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
operatives arrested the suspects, who were living at 4, Coal City
University Close, Independence Layout, Enugu, following intelligence
report over their alleged involvement in the alleged internet crime.
According
to Wilson Uwujaren, EFCC Head, Media and Publicity one of the suspects,
Uchendu, who is currently undergoing the mandatory National Youth
Service Corps (NYSC) in Akoko, Ondo State, confessed that he had seven
different email accounts registered with different names.
He is
facing a seven-count charge, further disclosed that most of his victims
were from the U.S., Canada and Germany after confessing duping one
Patricia from Canada $1 200; Larisa from Germany $300 and Ethel from the
U.S. $300.
Agu,
a final year student of the Enugu State University of Science and
Technology, Enugu further told the court that he realized $13 000
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 in Warri, Delta State.
Chikwadu,
who is currently seeking admission into the Delta State University,
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 trial resumes next Tuesday. The suspects remain in custody.
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