{"id":20977,"date":"2018-09-06T17:43:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T17:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=20977"},"modified":"2018-09-06T17:43:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T17:43:10","slug":"imo-police-parade-yahoo-boys-for-allegedly-duping-oyibo-women-150009-pounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=20977","title":{"rendered":"Imo Police Parade \u201cYahoo\u201d Boys For Allegedly Duping \u201cOyibo Women 15,0009 Pounds"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Reports available to Trumpeta<\/em> has it that the serious manhunt against suspects of advance fee fraud operators or 419 otherwise known as \u201cYahoo Boys\u201d has commenced in Imo State with Imo State police command arresting four for the alleged offence.<\/p>\n

The operatives of the Imo State Police Command have arrested a 22 – year -old undergraduate of a university in the State, Nicholas Lambert, and three others, for allegedly defrauding a Dane, Jeanette Brunsma, of \u20ac15, 000, while impersonating a United States of America Army sergeant.<\/p>\n

Parading Lambert and his accomplices \u2013 Collins Njoku 22; Bright Chukwuezi, 23; and Chukwuemeka Ononiwu, 27 \u2013 the state Commissioner of Police, Dasuki Galadanchi, said 11 laptops and 20 phones of different brands were recovered from them .<\/p>\n

The CP accused the suspects of engaging in \u201cadvanced fee fraud, otherwise known as yahoo – yahoo to defraud the Dane.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said, \u201cAfter defrauding Brunsma of the \u20ac 15, 000, the suspects made a fresh demand of \u20ac 1, 500.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe prime suspect, Lambert, met the victim on Facebook, bearing a fake name, Johnson Mills, in order to commit the crime.\u201d<\/p>\n

Explaining how the suspects were arrested, Galadanchi said the victim flew into the country and lodged a complaint at the state command headquarters which led to investigations by the police.<\/p>\n

He said the victim\u2019s statement was followed with \u201ca digital construction analysis,\u201d which led to the arrest of the suspects within 24 hours.<\/p>\n

The CP said, \u201cThe suspects; Nicholas Lambert, aka Johnson Mills of Onumonu Street, Owerri; Collins Njoku of Umudim Umuduruonyeoma, in the Ikeduru<\/p>\n

Local Government Area; Bright Chukwuezi of Umudim Umuduruonyeoma and Chukwuemeka Ononiwu also of Umudim Umuduruonyeoma, were arrested on September 3, 2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were arrested by a combined team of operatives of Scorpion Squad and Monitoring Unit of the command for advanced fee fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main suspect who claimed to be a US Army Sergeant by name Johnson Mills ( Nicholas Lambert ) serving in Kabul , Afghanistan , and his friends , who claimed to be Red Cross agents , were arrested in Imo State .<\/p>\n

\u201cWe swooped on them at their hideout in Umuodu Mbieri, in the Mbaitoli LGA after the victim lodged a formal complaint to the police.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe suspects have made useful statements to the police, confessing to have defrauded Jeanette Brunsma of Ringwey 10, Weiloo, Netherlands, of the sum of \u20ac15, 000.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe exhibits recovered from the suspects include 11 laptops and 20 phones of different brands.\u201d<\/p>\n

The prime suspect, Lambert, was said to have confessed when he said, \u201cI met Jeanette on Facebook; I claimed to be a US solider to defraud him of \u20ac15, 000.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the initial payment, I demanded another \u20ac1, 500, after which I was arrested by the police in my hotel room.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the other suspects were not aware that he made another demand on the Dane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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