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billyHill Apr 15 '15
Here is one ya just gotta love.... the original article ( with a pic of the arrested college student) is located here : https://www.viewngr.com/nigerians-blast-efcc-for-arresting-21-yr-old-yabatech-student-over-n16-4m-facebook-love-scam/

Nigerians blast EFCC for arresting 21-yr-old YABATECH student over N16.4m Facebook love scam - See more at: https://www.viewngr.com/...-facebook-love-scam/

Some Nigerians have tackled the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for arresting a 21-year-old student of the Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH), Yaba, Lagos, Obiechina Chikeluba, for defrauding a Briton of N16.4 million in a Facebook love scam.


Obiechina is believed to have met a Briton, on Facebook and pretending to be an American businessman name witheld.

EFCC Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, said the suspect then fleeced the love-struck woman of the total sum of £54,000, promising to marry her.

But, realising that Obiechina is a scammer, she alerted the EFCC and he was nabbed in a sting operation.

Surprisingly, the overwhelming opinion on Facebook is that the student should be set free, because what he did is not a crime.

Here is a sample of comments [some spellings edited]:

“Did he take the money from Nigeria resources or from a woman from UK, useless EFCC.  You will not arrest our Senator that loot billions with pen,” Azubuike Italo.

“Free this young guy, this is payback time to the western world because they have collected all our gold etc in terms of religion, also as a slavery trade. Come EFCC, beware and be warned,” Beston Kaspar Chidi.

“This organisation set up by the Obasanjo regime has failed again. Did he steal with a Gun? EFCC ARE THE WORST ARMED ROBBERS HAVE EVER SEEN,” Osunde Bassey Harrison.

“I say i love you, you say you love me….you give me money, where the scam come enter? EFCC no get work at all!!”Cletus Nathaniel.

Only a few like Katherine Ezeribe spoke in favour of the arrest.

“Issue is Nigerians see nothing wrong with stealing, while the entire world punishes even the smallest. For some in Nigeria its bred right into them as normal and almost expected,” she wrote.

“When this new generation learns the world will not tolerate it, maybe they will learn some empathy and receive some true blessings.”

Internet fraud, also called Yahoo Yahoo, is a crime prevalent among young students in Nigeria.

The social media platforms have been used as hunting grounds, with many, especially foreigners, falling victims of their highly organized, airtight operations.

In the past couple of years, the EFCC has prosecuted many students for the crime.

- See more at: https://www.viewngr.com/...-facebook-love-scam/
The Forum post is edited by billyHill Apr 15 '15
billyHill Moderator
billyHill Apr 15 '15
The original EFCC press release is located here :
https://efccnigeria.org/efcc/index.php/news/1208-suspected-internet-scammer-in-efcc-net-for-54-000-romance-scam

Suspected Internet Scammer in EFCC Net for £54,000 Romance Scam

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested a suspected fraudster, Obiechina Chikeluba for allegedly swindling  a UK citizen, the sum of £54,000 (equivalent of N20m) in love scam.

Chikeluba, a 21-year-old student of Federal Science and Technical College Yaba, Lagos, met the victim on Facebook  sometime in 2013. The suspect, using the assumed profile of an American, Lisa Jackson, entered into a relationship with the victim, with the pair agreeing to get married.

In the course of their relationship, ‘Jackson’ at various times collected money to the tune of £54,000 from the victim, to enable him travel to the UK to meet her.

After an endless wait for her fiancé, it dawned on the Briton that she had been conned, and consequently petitioned the EFCC.

Operatives of the Commission arrested Chikeluba in a sting operation on February 24, 2015 in Lagos while attempting to collect a parcel sent to him.

He will appear in court as soon as investigation is concluded.

Media & Publicity

5th March, 2015


AmeliaCastillo
AmeliaCastillo Apr 16 '15
Any which way you look at it, it is a crime! I don't believe the teen benefited alone from the money he conned. There must be accomplices and it is an organized crime. He must be punished in order to learn a lesson he didn't learn in school. Letting him go will be a precedent for the next (there's a lot of them) offenders to go scot-free.

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