Man Who Defrauds Banks, Men & Women Into False Relationship For Money Arrested By Oyo State Police

A graduate of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology,
Ogbomosho, Oyo State, Babatunde Fatai, who is about to begin the mandatory
national youth service programme, said he posed as a genuine lover to defraud
foreign women and men whom he met on dating sites.

Fatai, who has been arrested by the Oyo State Police command
for various Internet crimes, including hacking into bank accounts of many
people in and outside Nigeria, had once been arrested for robbery and arraigned
in court but granted bail.

He was arrested with the sum of N2.4m by men of the
command’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad in his Ogbomosho hideout. Also in his
possession were: a Honda CRV with number plate KWL 280 CN, a Nissan Altima car
with number plate KJA 963 CA, a Ford saloon car with number plate KRD 837 DQ
and a Toyota Camry saloon car with number plate LSR 418 DJ.

Fatai said he had been in the Internet fraud business for a
long time but could not remember how much he had fraudulently collected from
his victims.

He said, “It is not easy to do Internet fraud. It takes
painstaking effort.

“At times, I would go to dating sites to woo both men and
women. I would make sure they fall in love with me by regularly sending love
and romantic messages and even calling them until I deceived them into giving
me their account details.

“At times, I would send fake emails to bank customers making
it look like it emanated from their banks. Then I would ask them to change
their password, PIN or other bank account security details.

“They would be required to input the old and new, but as
soon as I get the old password, I would use it to hack into their accounts,
transfer the money to the person I’m dating abroad, who would later send it to
me through another means,” he explained.

Punch