Nigerian Woman Steals £17,000 From UK Employers For Luxury Wedding

A convicted fraudster stole £17,000 from the City firm where she worked after she started embezzling money on her second day in the job.

Gabrielle Yinka Saunders, 32, used company credit cards to pay for her £10,000 wedding, as well as a £5,000 honeymoon in the Seychelles.

She was arrested at Heathrow when she returned from the honeymoon - but now she has been spared jail even though a court heard that she had been convicted of fraud twice previously.

EFCC nabs Yahoo boy who duped American woman $2000

An Internet fraudster popularly called Yahoo-Yahoo Boy, Benjamin Akugbe, has been nabbed by anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and successfully recovered the sum of $2000 he collected from an unsuspecting American woman, Margaret Sanders, in a romance sting that got the 0Sherman, Texas, USA based woman believing she had found love, only to realise she has been scammed.

30-yr-old Nigerian man grabs N5.17m from Canadian Internet lover

Nwakanma Chukwudi, a 30-year-old Nigerian Internet fraudster popularly called 'Yahoo-Yahoo', has been dragged to before Justice D. V. Agishir of the Federal High Court sitting in Enugu, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), for allegedly conning the sum of $26,000, (N421m), from a Canadian Internet lover.

EFCC Arraigns Arisekola’s Son Again Over Subsidy Fraud

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has further amended the charges it filed against the son of late Ibadan business magnate, Alao Arisekola, Abdullahi, over alleged fuel subsidy fraud.

In the latest amended charge read to Alao and his company, Axenergy, on Wednesday, the accused were said to have allegedly obtained a sum of N2.6bn from the Federal Government under false pretence.

Photo : Dismissed Sergeant Dupes Nigerian Police N40million

A suspected Boko Haram member, who feigned madness, narrowly escaped arrest at Buni Yadi town in Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe on Tuesday. The Commander, 27 Task Force Brigade, Damaturu, Colonel Usman Yusuf, gave the order to arrest the supposedly madman when he was sighted in one of the dilapidated buildings in the deserted town.

As troops advanced to carry out the order, the suspect, who wore a white garment with an unkempt hair and chanting some incantations, disappeared.

EFCC to Arraign Bukola Saraki’s Aide, Cousin for N371m Contract Scam

Olatunji Moronfoye

A former Senior Special Adviser on Millennium Development Goals to Bukola Saraki, ex-governor of Kwara State, and incumbent Commissioner for Information in the Abdulfathah Ahmed administration, Prince Olatunji Oyeyemi Moronfoye,  will on March 19, 2015 be arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC before a Federal High Court, Ilorin Kwara State, for offences bordering on abuse of office, awarding contracts to his cronies, embezzlement, diversion of public funds, and money laundering.

Video: Woman Sends $1.4 Million to an Online Boyfriend She's Never Met in Africa

Dating can be tricky. A woman named Sarah has sent $1.4 million to a man she fell in love with online.

Though they’ve been “dating” for the last 17 months, Sarah has never met “Chris Olsen” in person.

Sarah will be on the Dr. Phil show on March 3 to hopefully meet Chris face to face, but she told the talk show host she’s pretty sure he’s not a scammer.

Bank Staff Arrested For Withdrawing N875K From Dead Customer’s Account In Lagos

Opeyemi Opetuga is a 35 year old banker who once worked with Skype Bank but got arrested for withdrawing N875,000 from a dead customer account without the bank’s approval.

She who was working at the Alausa branch of Skype bank in Lagos, was arrested by the police when the crime was discovered, currently resting in Kirikiri prisons in Apapa pending the time she will fulfill her bail conditions.

Man fakes being in a coma for two years

 

A fraudster claimed he was a quadriplegic and faked being in a vegetative state for two years.

Alan Knight, 47, of Swansea, conned his elderly neighbour out of £40,000 and claimed he was unable to move from the neck down in a bid to avoid being punished for the crime.

N8m scam: Manager of Bureau de Change held

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, today,October 20, 2014 arraigned one Abubakar Abdullahi before Justice Dije Aboki of Kano State High Court on one count charge of criminal breach of trust.

Fred Ajudua Beats EFCC Over $1.69m Fraud Charge,Free At Last

One man who had made the headlines is Fred Ajudua who was once called the biggest fraudster in Nigeria,he was arrested in 2002 by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

He was alleged to have duped two Dutchmen of $1.69m which he and his alleged partner Charles Orie claimed helped facilitate government contracts worth $18m.

Two held for defrauding foreign investor N1.155b

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested two men who allegedly defrauded a foreign investor of the sum of $7.9, equivalent of N1. 155b.
The suspects Mr. Victor Uadiale and Captain Nnaji Everest were said to have been arrested separately in connection to the scam.

According to the EFCC spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, Uadiale, the principal suspect, was the arrow head of the international syndicate, alleged to be versed in defrauding international businessmen seeking investment opportunities in Nigeria.

Nigerian Man In UK Arrested For N57 Million Romance Fraud

Two men in the UK have been arrested and found guilty of perpetrating a dating scam and one of them is a Nigerian.

The Mirror reports that 37-year-old Adewunmi Nusi and Monty Emu, 28 have been convicted of money laundering after illegally obtaining £220,000 (N57,810,815.37) from vulnerable women who were looking for love.

Hackers rob Nigerian bank of N6.3billion

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is on the trail of a group of computer hackers, who had stolen N6.28billion, about $40million, from a Nigerian bank.

At the head of the IT thieves is Godswill Oyegwa Uyoyou, who worked in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) department of the unidentified bank.

He is now on the run, according to a report in a weekly newspaper. Uyoyou allegedly conspired with others and hacked into the bank’s computers, disbursing the funds to various accounts as they pleased. Uyoyou, who hails from Isoko South Local Government Area of Delta State, is said to have carried out the massive heist over a short period of time.

Bauchi Guber Aspirant Wanted for $.5m Scam

A gubernatorial aspirant in Bauchi State, Abdulahi Usman Adamu, alias Dan China, has been declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The politician cum miner is wanted by the anti-graft agency for allegedly obtaining the sum of $500,000 USD (Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars) from a Chinese Company, Shengjia International (HK) Limited, by false pretence.

EFCC Arrests Two Bankers For N661million Fraud

Find the EFCC press release below…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested two bankers for allegedly stealing the sum of N661,000,000 (six hundred and sixty one million Naira) from their employers.

6 Nigerians Arrested For Forgery In Ghana

Six Nigerians have been arrested for allegedly forging letterheads of the Office of the President of Ghana, John Mahama and other state institutions to defraud people.

They are Paul Kelvin, 20; Wallace Darden Odon, 28; Osamidiamwen Ikecheku Emeka, 24; Prince Ejime, 19; Charles Chinedu, 32, and Adebayoo Alaba Saheed, 21. They are all unemployed.

Prophetess jailed for defrauding woman of N570,000

 

A 38-year-old self-acclaimed  prophetess, Nnenna James has been arrested and remanded in prison custody at Kirikiri, Lagos state for defrauding a 31-year-old woman, Theresa Johnson.
The victim, Theresa Johnson was reported to have paid about N570,000 for spiritual cleansing and deliverance to the Lagos based prophetess.

Police Ordered To Arrest Sanusi, New Emir Of Kano, For “Fraud”

The Nigerian police have been ordered to arrest the newly-crowned Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, on fraud-related charges stemming from his tenure as Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

According to reliable sources at the Presidency in Abuja, the team of policemen at the Emir’s palace in Kano received the order from the Nigeria police headquarters to place Mr. Sanusi under arrest if he leaves the Kano Governor’s lodge.

EFCC to Arraign Female Suspect for N30m Fraud

 

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will on May 23, 2014 arraign a business woman, Mary Okoh alias Josephine Williams, for offences bordering on fraud and forgery. Okoh was arrested by the operatives of the Commission following a complaint by Okon Abasi, executive officer, Mutual Alliance Property Development Company Limited.