By Pathfinder Reporter
Thursday September 26, 2024
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The Nigerian Police Force, Delta State Command, has asserted of existence of Internet Fraud Academy in the state operated by fraudsters.
The police revealed that soldiers arrested over 100 students (teenagers) of the Academy who the operators lured with promise into the Academy.
The teenagers were told that they would be trained in Bitcoin and forex trading but they later discovered the academy to be a Yahoo school.
The command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Bright Edafe, in a video shared on his X page on Wednesday, narrated that the suspects had arrived at the academy only to discover that it was a “Hustling Kingdom.”
According to the PPRO, soldiers from the 3rd Battalion Nigerian Army Barracks stormed an estate in the Warri area of the state and arrested over 100 suspected internet fraudsters.
The school was reportedly engaged in training cybercriminals, and the suspects were handed over to the police for further investigation and prosecution.
Meanwhile, Edafe stressed that the arrest by the military came after one of the suspects contacted his family member via the laptop given to him by the academy operators.
The PPRO further narrated that upon informing his family about the trap he was caught in, the family contacted the military, leading to the arrest of 123 suspects, most of whom were teenagers.
According to Edafe, the suspects were lured into a trap with promises of learning BTC trading and forex, only to find themselves in Hustlers HK, a notorious cybercrime training network.
He narrated, “We are here at the Ekpan Police Station Effurun Divisional HQ, where we will be parading about 123 suspected Internet fraudsters who were engaged in Internet fraud.”
“Their modus operandi is that they engage their agents who go on social media to flaunt wealth, which most times isn’t even theirs, and convince unsuspecting boys aged 17, 18, 19, and 20 that they want to teach them forex and crypto business.”
“They lure some from Kaduna, Akwa Ibom, and Ibadan to that particular estate and beat the hell out of them, feeding them only when they feel like,” he said.
Edafe revealed that the suspects were deceived by agents flaunting fake wealth on social media, convincing them to join the fraudulent scheme.
Efforts by Punch correspondent to ascertain whether the operators of the school had been arrested proved abortive, as the PPRO had yet to respond to calls and messages made to his line.
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