News reaching after a Malaysian court ordered for the arrest of five Nigerian
students in Malysia for their alleged involvement in a N125.2m (RM2.4 million)
internet fraud in Selangor & Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
According to local media reports, the 5 Nigerian students
who are between the ages of 20 and 30 are undergraduates pursuing a degree in
Information Technology in a leading University Kuala Lumpur. They were arrested
on June 30, 2015.
A Malaysian police chief ACP Azmi Adam while speaking on
their arrest said two women have been arrested for providing their bank
accounts for the syndicates to use in doing their illicit business. He stated
that five laptops, 20 hand phones, ATM cards, SIM cards and documents believed
to have been used to con their victims were seized from the men.
The men were arrested after one of their victims, a
62-year-old businessman alerted the police after receiving a suspicious email
in March informing him that he was among 50 recipients selected to receive
RM15.9 million from the government of the United States.
"The e-mail requested the victim to follow certain
procedures to ensure he did not miss the opportunity. Convinced by the contents
of the e-mail, the victim carried out 51 transactions involving money, to
accounts numbers given by the syndicate before realising it was a scam. He
later lodged a police report,” the police chief said.
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