EFCC arraigns House of Rep member over dishonored cheques worth N125m

Issuing dishonored cheque is a serious crime in this country and nobody is above the law in this regard. A member of Nigeria's House of Representative, Hon Aliyu Gebi representing Bauchi Federal Constituency was today arraigned before a Federal High Court in Abuja on a 13-count charge of issuing dud cheques worth over 125 million Naira to one Usman Mustapha, Sahara Reporters reports.

According to papers filed by the EFCC, one of the charges against Gebi read "That you, Hon. Aliyu Gebi, being the owner and sole signatory of Craft Technology Ltd and Craft Technology Ltd on or about the 12/01/2012 at Abuja Judicial Division of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory did obtain credit by issuing a UBA Plc cheque No. 00091852 in the sum of N10,000.000.00 (Ten Million naira) only in favour of Musty Petroleum Ltd. which when presented within three months was dishonored on the ground that there was insufficient fund in the account and thereby committed an offense punishable under section 1 (b) (I)  of the dishonored cheque ( offences) Act, 2004 Laws of the Federation of Nigeria.”

Hon. Gebi pleaded not guilty to the charges read against him. He pleaded through his defence council that he be admitted on bail. The presiding judge, Justice Abba Mohammed granted him bail on self-recognition and ordered that he tenders his traveling passport with the EFFCC and report to their office whenever he was called upon.
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NSCDC WARNS OVER RECRUITMENT RUMOUR

The Management of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has alerted the public that it is not presently recruiting contrary to rumors making the rounds.

Emmanuel Okeh, the Public Relations Officer of the Corps said while responding to enquiries  that the information circulating that NSCDC is recruiting is fake and misleading.

He said: “If the Corps is to recruit, it is not by asking applicants to contact agents, consultants and persons on website.

Therefore, anyone involved in designing websites for such exercise is a criminal and considered to be a scam."

Okeh said the Commandant General of the Corps Dr. Ade Abolurin, is disturbed by the way people go about defrauding applicants in the name of recruitment into the service even when the Corps is not recruiting.

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Police Arraign Man Who Duped 106 Tenants In Lagos

A landlord, Alhaji Ishola Salawudeen, who allegedly duped over 106 prospective tenants in Alapere, Ketu has been charged to court by the State Criminal Investigation Department, SCID, Panti, Yaba, Lagos.

Salawudeen, who is the landlord of the building at 59, Oriola Street, Alapere, Ketu, in Agboyi-Ketu Local Council Development Area, LCDA, allegedly duped the tenants under false pretence of renting the 13 mini-flat apartments to the tune of about N50 million.

After collecting the huge amount, he allegedly issued receipts to each of them and promised to hand over the keys to the unsuspecting victims. But they later discovered that they had been duped when they went for the keys to their new apartments.

The 46-year old Salawudeen is facing a 211-count charge of obtaining money under false pretence and stealing under the Criminal Code.

When the charges were read to him, he pleaded not guilty, but he revealed in court that it will be difficult for the victims to get their money back because his accomplices who were involved in the scam got their share and ran away.

The prosecutor, Mr G. O. Osuji opposed the bail application by his counsel, Barrister Babatunde Adeyobi, on the ground that he may likely jump bail because of the weight of evidence before the court and that he is likely to be jailed if found guilty.

The presiding Magistrate, Mrs S. O. Solebo, however, granted him bail in the sum of N2 million with two sureties in like sum, and ordered that he should be remanded in prison custody at Ikoyi, Lagos before adjourning the matter till 9 September, 2013.

Source:Informationng

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HOW YAHOO YAHOO BOY'S LOVE-SCAM BRITON WOMAN OF £40,000

What I find hard to understand is the reason why some people still view internet love as part of the real thing, why on earth will you believe the person on the other side of the world is who he/she says he/she is, why? Its so bad, it will take years for this woman to get this scam off her mind, its not all about the money, its all about the fact that she was deeply in love with the Nigerian yahoo yahoo boy.

A 59 year old Briton, Vicky Fowkes has been scammed by a Nigerian internet fraudster. Vicky met him on an online dating site where he was masquerading as a charming Briton named John Hawkins. She started sending him money in August, 2010 and by November that year, the man, who claimed he was an engineer with his own property business, had received nearly £40,000!

But Ms Fowkes’ hope of love was shattered when police visited her home in Tewkesbury, Worcestershire, and revealed the romance was scam concocted by an internet fraudster. The mother-of-two said: “I put my trust in this person and I was beginning to start a relationship with them, but now the whole affair has had a devastating effect on my life. I have been humiliated and have lost my self respect

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UK's Top 10 Most Wanted Fraudsters List- Includes A Nigerian

 left to right - Kevin Leitch, Misba Uddin, Nicholas Slocombe,
 Ajayi Seun and Peter Stead; bottom row,
left to right - Nasser Ahmed, Mohamad Khan,
Timur Mehmet, Jascent Nakawunde and an unknown woman

Crimestoppers, the national charity, said the 10 suspected criminals were allegedly responsible for a total of at least £200m of fraud.

• Nasser Ahmed, 38, wanted in connection to an alleged £156m VAT fraud in the Bristol area. He absconded during trial and was sentenced to six years jail in his absence. He is wanted by revenue and customs police.

• Timur Mehmet, 38, wanted in connection with a £25m VAT fraud. He absconded before trial and was sentenced in his absence to eight years. He has links with north London and is wanted by revenue and customs police.

• Misba Uddin, 48, wanted for fraud by false representation after he allegedly submitted fraudulent mortgage applications worth £5.7m while working as a financial adviser. Once the mortgages were processed he is accused of transferring the funds into his own accounts. He is wanted by the Metropolitan police.

• Ajayi Seun, 45, who is charged with conspiracy to money launder and has failed to answer bail. He is alleged to have conned mortgage lenders and banks out of more than £12m between 2004 and 2009. His previous address was in Carshalton, Surrey. He is a solicitor and has strong links to the Carshalton area. He is wanted by Suffolk police.

• Peter Stead, 48, wanted after allegedly conning Derbyshire pub landlords out of thousands of pounds in 2009. He is accused of fraudulently posing as an entertainer and brother of the comedian Peter Kay. He offered to put on a comedy night to raise money for the Lewis Mighty Fund, which was set up to send a six-year-old cancer patient to the US for treatment. Stead, who allegedly used the alias of Danny Kay, was allegedly given cash by landlords to secure the booking but failed to perform. He is wanted by Derbyshire police.

• Nicholas Slocombe, 28, wanted in connection with reports from dozens of shops and businesses about alleged false claims of collecting for charity. He was arrested in April on suspicion of more than 30 allegations of fraud by false representation across Shropshire and Herefordshire. He failed to answer bail in May and a warrant has been issued for his arrest. Slocombe is alleged to have used the aliases of Owen Roswell and Arron Renfry and is wanted by the West Mercia police force.

• Jascent Nakawunde, 33, also known as Tania Bird, wanted for questioning in connection with an alleged £35,000 fraud in the Cardiff area between 2007 and 2008. She was employed as a live-in carer for a woman in her 80s. During this time she is accused of stealing cheques from her which were allegedly paid into false accounts in the London area. She has strong links and previous addresses in London, and is alleged to have used the aliases of Tania Bird and Tracey Bird. She is wanted by South Wales police.

• Mohamad Khan, 29, from Waltham Cross, north-east London, accused of using counterfeit credit cards to buy more than £100,000 worth of goods from shopping centres such as Bluewater and Lakeside. He was arrested and charged but failed to attend crown court. A warrant has been issued for his arrest. He is believed to be in London and is wanted by City of London police.

• An unknown woman, who is alleged to have falsely obtained a debit card and account details in the name of a legitimate customer from a bank in Bethnal Green, east London, in October 2008. She then went to three more banks in Saffron Walden, Cranbrook and Cambridge Hills and is accused of fraudulently transferring funds out of the customer's account. The electronic transfers were wired to locations across the world and used to buy a number of expensive vehicles, it is alleged. The total amount she is accused of stealing is £650,000. She is wanted by City of London police.

• Kevin Leitch, 48, from Liverpool, who is wanted by Devon and Cornwall police. He allegedly took bookings for a holiday let in Cornwall, accepting payments often worth more than £1,000, but then cancelled the bookings only days beforehand, claiming the property was no longer available. Leitch lived in Cornwall and has links to St Austell and Newquay, Brixham in Devon and Southampton. He allegedly used the alias of Kevin Branson.

Be careful whom you trust,,,,,

source:guardian

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Man dupes 90 home seekers of N20m

The Lagos State Police Command, on Monday, paraded a man who claimed to be a developer for duping over 90 persons of over N20 million.

Police spokesperson, Samuel Jinadu, said that the alleged fraudster, Tajudeen Yusuf, 47, duped over 90 persons of N20 million with a property that was listed for rent. He said that the house has been sealed to keep away any occupants in order to conclude the investigations.

Yusuf, who confessed to the crime, however said that he collected money from about 50 people for two houses containing four self-contained apartments and three mini flats.

He said that he could not confirm the total amount of money he collected from the victims to construct the building at 38 Thomas Animashaun Street, Aguda, Surulere.

Asked how he would repay the victims of the scam, the father of 4, who lives at 21 Arowoyabuna, Ajegunle said: "I go hustle to get money pay them", explaining that he would put the house on lease to get money for his victims’ refund.

One of the victims, Bartholomew Ewa, a staff of Tantalizers, said that he saw a poster which advertised a vacant mini-flat and when he called, he was directed to 38 Animashaun Street, and on getting there, he found that the house was still under construction.

He said that he paid N360, 000 for a mini-flat on 19th of August, and was given two weeks to come for the key and so was visiting the place frequently to check developments.

He said he once tried to fix wires for his generator on one of such visits but Yusuf told him that he cannot do that because they were flooring the house. On his return some days later, he found many people in the place clamouring for their own apartment.

"That was when it downed on me that I have been duped by this man," he said.

A widow, Bimbo Achi, said she borrowed money from her church to pay the rent for a flat in the house. "The church agreed to pay on my behalf and the pastor came to check the place and spoke with them and paid them a cheque of N300, 000," she said. "Later, they asked me to come and collect my key on September 20 which was the date I agreed to pay them their balance of N60, 000, but on getting there, I saw a lot of people fighting."

Jinadu said that the matter has been transferred to State CID, Panti, for further investigations, and urged people to go to the right channel whenever they are seeking houses in the metropolis to avoid being duped.

Source:DailyTimes

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Nigerian Spam Email Con-men Jailed In UK

Julius Oweka

Joshua Obasuyi

Two fraudsters who convinced a pensioner she had won a £5.7m lottery jackpot before conning her out of her life-savings were jailed for a total of 50 months today.

Joshua Obasuyi, 49, and Julius Oweka, 48, were part of a Nigerian gang who tricked U.S. Professor Marie Lowery, 80, a retired lecturer at the University of Houston, Texas, into handing over £245,000.

She was strung along by the London-based conmen for nearly four years, after responding to a spam e-mail that told her she had won the jackpot in a prize draw.

Obasuyi and Oweka were caught in May 2009 in police sting operation following a tip-off from the FBI.

Detectives found more than £66,000 duped from 'lottery winners' around the world had been paid into a bank account at the Nat West in Grays, Ess*x,

Judge Rosamund Horwood-Smart QC jailed Obasuyi for 30 months and Oweka for 20 months at the Old Bailey, telling them that they were obviously 'well-versed in this type of scam'.

She said.'You were both involved in fraudulent activities with others, and there is evidence of more than one victim,'

'In view of Prof Lowery, who was of course vulnerable, she was taken advantage of over many years - remorselessly and without mercy.

'This type of fraud takes advantage of the hopes, dreams and gullibility of others, and is very common and very harmful to our society.'

The court heard that in April 2005, Prof Lowery received an e-mail claiming to be from the fictitious 'Great British Lottery', in which she was congratulated for winning a £5.7m jackpot.

She initially agreed to pay £180 to process her winnings, and later complied with a string of demands for greater sums to be transferred via Western Union.

Throughout the scam, she was presented with bogus certificates and court documents in an effort to convince her that the arrangement was legitimate.

In November 2008, Prof Lowery was e-mailed by a man calling himself Chris Ascuncion, who told her he was a 'claims attorney' acting on behalf of the lottery company and asked for even more money to be transferred.

After beginning to suspect that she was being defrauded, she passed the e-mail on to the FBI - who immediately recognised the scammers' methods.

She arranged with the gang to fly to London and hand over the latest payment, £,3,996 in person.

Detectives from the City of London police then tapped her phone as she spoke with Obasuyi and agreeing to meet at the Crown Plaza Hotel, near Blackfriars Bridge, central London, on May 20, 2009.

Officers pounced at the meeting and were led to Oweka through his contact with Obasuyi

They later raided the gang's office in Croydon, south London, where they found a treasure trove of kit used to carry out the frauds - including a locked briefcase containing bundles of paper with a thin layer of real US dollars on top.

Anthony Wilcken, prosecuting, said computer evidence found at the unit showed they had targeted 'hundreds' of other people, whose telephone numbers and computer passwords were recorded.

'This was undoubtedly part of the fraudster's kit,' he said.

'The documents relating to frauds of that sort were manifest and numerous.'

None of the money Prof Lowery passed on has been recovered.

Obasuyi, from Plaistow, east London, admitted conspiracy to defraud, and two counts of acquiring criminal property.

Oweka, from Croydon, south London, denied conspiracy to defraud, two counts of acquiring criminal property and possessing an article for use in fraud, but was found guilty on all charges following a trial.

Source:Dailymail

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