The Police Special Fraud Unit, PSFU, has smashed a syndicate
which specialises in designing multinational organisations’ websites to defraud
unsuspecting members of the public, particularly applicants, and arrested six
members, Vanguard reports.
Among the suspects are a first class honours graduate and
two final year students of the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA.
two final year students of the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA.
The suspects’ modus oparadi, according to the unit, include
using logos of multinational companies to place online advertisements for jobs
and scholarships and demanding application fee from interested individuals.
using logos of multinational companies to place online advertisements for jobs
and scholarships and demanding application fee from interested individuals.
Luck ran out for the suspects after the unit received a
petition from the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, last
August, that a website designed as ‘OFID Scholarship Website’ (OPEC Fund for
International Development for World Student Aid Scholarship) with OFID name and
logo is being used to defraud unsuspecting Nigerian applicants.
petition from the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, last
August, that a website designed as ‘OFID Scholarship Website’ (OPEC Fund for
International Development for World Student Aid Scholarship) with OFID name and
logo is being used to defraud unsuspecting Nigerian applicants.
The police however swung into action and one of them was
arrested which later led to the arrest of 5 others.
arrested which later led to the arrest of 5 others.
Investigation, according to the Commissioner of Police
in-charge of the unit, Umar Idris, was on-going, informing that the suspects
would soon be charged to court.
in-charge of the unit, Umar Idris, was on-going, informing that the suspects
would soon be charged to court.
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