{"id":148724,"date":"2019-09-02T17:03:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T16:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=148724"},"modified":"2019-09-02T21:18:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T20:18:56","slug":"in-edo-efcc-nabs-female-internet-fraudster-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=148724","title":{"rendered":"In Edo, EFCC nabs female internet fraudster, others"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">With its recent collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested a female suspected cyber fraudster who worked in collaboration with foreign counterpart in the dark web.<\/p>\n<p>The Head of Benin Zonal Office, Muhtar Bello, who spoke on behalf of Acting Chairman of the commission, Ibrahim Magu, said the female suspect was involved in obtaining and stealing people\u2019s identification information which she forward to her American collaborators.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cAmerican collaborators use the information to file for fraudulent tax return with the Internal Revenue Service, She receives her cut through Bitcoin\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbout 185 Bitcoin which by current market value is six hundred and fifty-six million, three hundred and seventy-one thousand, four hundred and ninety naira has been traced to her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Commission is resolute in exterminating cybercrime and bringing to book all those involved in this despicable activity. We have also operation rewire in Edo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the command confiscated over forty exotic cars, charms, laptops, mobile phones, flash drives from the suspects and has also raided the hideout of internet fraudsters in \u201dour jurisdiction-Edo, Delta and Ondo States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-713360 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/EFCC-arrests-female-internet-fraudster-others-in-Edo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4000\" height=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-713359 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1567436709_210_EFCC-arrests-female-internet-fraudster-others-in-Edo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4000\" height=\"1920\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-713358 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/1567436709_709_EFCC-arrests-female-internet-fraudster-others-in-Edo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4000\" height=\"1920\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With its recent collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested a female suspected cyber fraudster who worked in collaboration with foreign counterpart in the dark web. The Head of Benin Zonal Office, Muhtar Bello, who spoke on behalf of Acting Chairman of the commission, Ibrahim Magu, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,2830,3],"tags":[866,8913],"class_list":["post-148724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-law","category-news","tag-efcc","tag-internet-fraud"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/147176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}