EFCC Arrests 33 Suspected Internet Fraudsters In Imo Laptop computers, mobile phones, and three vehicles among other items were recovered from them.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission , says it has arrested 33 suspected online fraudsters in Owerri, the Imo State capital as part of its efforts to clampdown on internet fraudsters across the country.
In a statement by its spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, the anti-graft agency explained that the suspects were arrested in their hideout by EFCC operatives from the Abuja and Enugu zonal offices. Laptop computers, mobile phones, two Lexus SUVs and a Toyota salon car, were among the items said to have been recovered from them.
The arrest comes barely a day after the EFCC announced the arrest of a cybercrime syndicate which specialises in business email compromise in benin city, the Edo state capital. They were said to have confessed to searching for victims’ email addresses, creating a phishing link and compromising the process in order to defraud them.
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