The operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) has yet again, announced the arrested of Nine suspected Yahoo Boys in Benin City, the capital of Edo State.
The Commission in a statement released a few hours ago by the head of the Commission’s Benin Zonal Office, Mr Muhtar Bello, said the Nine suspected Yahoo Boys were arrested on July 23, 2019, their various hideouts in Benin City, and these arrests were the sequel to intelligence gathering, which alleged that they were involved in the fraudulent internet activity known as ‘cat-fishing’.
The Nine suspected Yahoo Boys paraded by EFCC are said to be between the ages of 20 and 35 are Amafin Collins, Edafitite Abel, Usianene Elizojie, Ojiefor Marvellous, Uduehi Osumor, Geigi Emmanuel Ose, Osaro Osakpolor, Francis Omoiegbe and Onuoba Prince Nonso.
Items recovered from them at the point of arrest include luxury cars, laptop computers, mobile phones, flash drives and internet modems.They have made useful statements and will soon be charged to court.
Muhtar Bello in his statement, also alerted members of the public of the activities of fraudsters who engage in using other people’s phone numbers to generate social media account authentication codes in an attempt to defraud unsuspecting victims.
He, therefore, warned that members of the public should at all time, pay attention to the whereabout of their phones or be circumspect who they give their phones to make calls.