School dropouts arrested for internet fraud in Lagos

Oluwaseun Michael, 28; Igbokwe Chijioke, 27; Felix Chukwudi, 22 and Babajide Goloba, have all landed in EFCC’s net for internet fraud.


The suspects who are school drop-outs, confessed to defrauding their victims, mostly American and European citizens, millions of Dollars in romance/ marriage scam, Internet advertisement scam, spoofing of emails and interception of business mails.

They have also confessed to be working as couriers, for movement of stolen funds by other cyber-criminals. Laptops, handsets and phishing scripts were recovered from the suspects, who disclosed they own companies with no fixed addresses, which they used to cover up the real sources of their money.