Four suspected Yahoo Yahoo Boys arrested

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Web fraudsters who allegedly forged the official website of the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, Abuja have been arrested in Aba, Abia State.

The four suspects are Messrs Chinedum Nwaogu, 30, Okechi Nwaobia Micah, 33, Ifeanyi Daniel Nwaubani, 27, and Chigozie Richard Akoku, 30. Confirming this, the Abia State Director of State Security Services, SSS, Matthew Obodoechi, said the suspects were arrested at 22, Jerry Nweke Street, World Bank Housing Estate in Aba.

It was gathered that the fraudsters have defrauded some Polish, Indian, Koreans, Slovenian and Croatian citizens. Besides, investigations revealed that one Fred, a Nigerian living in Malaysia acts as front for the gang, as he received all monies and transferred same through the various bank accounts of the gang members in Nigeria.

How "419", Is equal to "Yahoo Yahoo," Yahoo Plus, Yahoo Plus Plus "

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Advance Fee Fraud, popularly known as “419” in Nigeria, is not news to an average countryman. However, what many are unaware of is the deeper dimensions it has taken in some parts of the country. While the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) may have secured many convictions in recent past, more than 90 percent of these illegal transactions go undetected by the agency. The number “419” refers to the article of the Nigerian Criminal Code dealing with fraud – obtaining by false pretence.

According to Wikipedia, Nigeria ranks among the top three countries in the world noted for email scams. The top three nations are the United States, the United Kingdom, and Nigeria (in that order). Similarly, other nations known to have a high incidence of advance fee fraud include Côte d’Ivoire, Benin Republic, Togo, South Africa, the Netherlands and Spain. Names like Ade Bendel, Emmanuel Nwude, Maurice Ibekwe and several others still ring a bell in Nigeria whenever issues relating to 419 are being discussed.

Another Yahoo Boy: EFCC Arraigns Akinluyi Akintunde for 1.1 Billion Naira Scam

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, 13 March, 2013 arraigned Akinluyi Akintunde (a.k.a Akin Cindy) before Justice Bolaji Yusuf of the Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan on a two count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence and possession of documents containing false pretence contrary to Sections 6, 8(b) and 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act No. 14 0f 2006. 

Akintunde allegedly obtained the sum of $450.00(Four Hundred and Fifty USD) from one Robert Jackson via Western Union Money Transfer and another $6,450,000.00 (Six million, Four Hundred and Forty UDS) about 1.1 billion naira through false documents.

Yahoo Yahoo Boys: How To Avoid Some Scam Letters

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Have you ever received mails from individuals or organizations you have never had any dealing with offering you huge amount of money for a lottery you didn’t enter for or an opportunity to share in the money of a deceased persons?

Chances are that you have if you are a regular internet user. These kinds of mail are from fraudsters and you should never be tempted to respond to them if you don’t want to lose your hard earned money to them.

A very common one is a mail from a non-existing international lottery organization informing you that your e mail address was picked in an end of the year promo. The mail will be so real that it contains your winning numbers and your e mail address to authenticate it, but it is 419.

Reps Propose N25 Million Fine And 15-Year Jail Term For Yahoo Yahoo Boys

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The House of Representatives has proposed heavy penalties for “Computer misuse and Cybercrimes,” with fines ranging from N5m to N25m for offenders. Convicted persons will also serve jail terms ranging from two to 15 years.

Cybercrime is commonly known as Yahoo Yahoo in Nigeria.

The penalties are contained in amendments proposed to the Criminal Code and the Penal Code. The two bills have already passed second reading at the House and are scheduled for public hearing by the House Committee on Justice headed by Mr. Ali Ahmad.

Fish out perpetrators

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Pastor David Sadiq, Royalpriestofjesus@yahoo.co.uk: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr once said that, “Through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can’t murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar,  but you can’t establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater,  but you can’t murder hate. Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that…”

The people that brutally and in such a inhumane manner, murdered the four university students in Aluu, Rivers State have done nothing to ward off evil but in their callous and barbaric jungle justice have demonstrated that they are nothing but harbingers of death.

Taking lives of fellow human beings in such a calculated coldness and alacrity can only confirm what the scripture says that in the end “the love of many shall wax cold.” Matthew 24:4-12.

A full inquest must be carried out by the Nigeria Police to bring the perpetrators of this heinous crime to justice.

Let us all rise and pray for our youths that our tomorrow shall not plunge into dark oblivion.

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