EFCC Arraigns 21-Year-Old Internet Fraudster

                                       

Na waa oooo...... This young man Chikeluba 21, and a student of Federal Science and Technocal College in Yaba, Lagos State, is accused of obtaining money by false pretense, impersonation, forgery and using false documents as he purported to hail from the USA. 

Wilson Uwujaren, the agency’s spokesman, said that Chikeluba met all his victims on Facebook using false identity Lisa T. Jackson, a United States citizen. The man was said to have been making monetary demands from his victims, using various guises.

“In one such instance in March 2013, he obtained the total sum of £54,324.59 from one K. Oaks through Western Union on the pretext that he was an American woman dealing in Gold in Nigeria and needed money to increase her capital. The unsuspecting victim paid, having already agreed to marry the conman,” the statement said. 

When the charges were read to Chikeluba, he reportedly pleaded not guilty. 

 

However, Justice Ipaye adjourned the matter to July 20, 2015 for hearing of bail application and ordered that the defendant be remanded in custody.

The young Internet fraudster was arrested by the operatives of the EFCC on February 24, 2015.