EFCC Operatives
Fake Jumia
EFCC Operatives
Fake Jumia Agent Nabbed in Benin, Internet Fraudster
Jailed in Ilorin
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has arrested
Edoboryi Osaruese Leerees, 23 year-old, a fake Jumia agent in Benin
City, Edo State.
Leerees was arrested following a petition by a lady who claimed
to have paid him over one million naira (N1,000,000) for the supply
of good which she and her friends ordered from his page online but
never got the items.
According to the lady, Leerees sent her a message on WhatsApp
and told her he was an agent of Jumia and pleaded with her to help
him market his products which were on sales at 40% discount.
When the lady saw how attractive the prices were, she and her
two friends credited the suspect’s accounts with the sum of One
Million Naira ( N1,000,000) and waited for the delivery of their
goods. However, days elapsed and the goods were not forthcoming,
she then went to Jumia office to make enquiry and discovered that
Leerees was not an agent. She petitioned the EFCC after he refused
to refund her money.
Leerees modules operandi was to use his social media platforms
as an agent ofJumia to advertise goods which are purportedly on
promo at cheaper prices. This makes unsuspecting customers to send
money into his account for goods which he never delivered.
Investigations revealed that Leerees is an internet fraud
suspect who has has defrauded serveral people, including foreign
nationals using the names, Vin Diesel and Mark Sinclair, an
American.
The suspect has made useful statement and would be changed to
court soon.
Wilson Uwujaren
Spokesperson EFCC
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Court Jails Internet Fraudster Six Months in Ilorin
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ilorin Zonal
office on Thursday September 26, 2019 secured the conviction of one
Stephen Olarewaju Odanye for offences bordering on attempt to
obtain by false pretence.
The convict pleaded guilty to one count of attempted fraud
before a Kwara state High Court in Ilorin.
The charge reads, “That you, Stephen Olarewaju Odanye (a.k.a
Raymond Sullivan) sometime in September 2019 or thereabout at
Ilorin, Kwara State within the jurisdiction of this honourable
court attempted to commit an offence of cheating by pretending and
presenting yourself to one Lynn Smith, to be a white man, supplier
of engineering and construction equipment, living in Washington as
contained in your email gmail account: raysulivan@yahoo.com and
thereby committed an offence contrary to section 95 and 321 of the
Penal Code law and punishable under section 322 of the same
act”
The Prosecution called one witness, Olamide Sadiq, an operative
of the EFCC who narrated to the court, how the defendant was
arrested and items recovered from his laptop computer.
In his ruling, the trial Judge held that the prosecution had
prove its case beyond reasonable doubt as the evidence of the sole
witness was not challenged.
He therefore convicted and sentenced the defendant to six months
imprisonment without an option of fine.
Justice Abdulgafar further directed that the convict’s laptop
and mobile phones be forfeited to the Federal Government of
Nigeria.
Wilson Uwujaren
Head, Media & Publicity