The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal Office, has arrested five alleged internet fraudsters, including one Adedamola Adewale, a self-acclaimed social media influencer, for their alleged involvement in internet-related fraud.
Furthermore, the five suspects were apprehended in different areas of Lagos during a raid by operatives.
While Adewale, 20, and her accomplice, Lamina Hamzat Ajibola, arrested at the Agungi area of Lekki, Lagos State,
the trio of Israel Onyebuchi, Emmanuel Olayode, and Valentine Nwokorie was picked up at the Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos State.
They arrested them at a four-bedroom duplex belonging to the two run-away fraudsters.
Intelligence also linked them with alleged flamboyant lifestyles.
During interrogation, Adewale, a self-acclaimed model, who goes by the username
@adeherself on Instagram confessed she works as a picker” in cybercrimes.
She usually poses as a foreign lady to hoodwink her foreign “preys”.
Items recovered from the suspects include two Toyota Camry 2009 model cars, and a sum of N9 million (Nine Million Naira, only), found in Adewale’s account.
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