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EFCC To Raid Lekki As The New Hub Of Cybercrime
The Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee EFCC has disclosed that Lekki, is growing right into a haven for web scammers higher referred to as ‘yahoo yahoo’.
In keeping with a report by the EFCC, most fraudulent acts together with forgery, possession of fraudulent paperwork, spamming, bank card fraud, impersonation, rental rip-off, mortgage fraud, Enterprise E-mail Compromise, hacking, stealing, cheque rip-off, phishing, and cash laundering are all perpetrated in Lekki.
The fee issued an announcement about its April and June, 2021 survey and it got here out with the outcomes that Lekki tops the chart in fraud actions in Lagos State.
The assertion learn: Between April and June, 2021, the Advance Price Fraud and Cyber Crime Sections of the Command recorded a complete of 402 internet-related fraud arrests. Whereas the Advance Price Fraud Part was accountable for 243 arrests, the Cyber Crime Part executed 18 sting operations which resulted in 159 arrests, from which 13 convictions have thus far been recorded.
Of the 159 suspects arrested by the Cyber Crime Part, 70 are from Lekki, comprising communities equivalent to Ajah, Badore, Victoria Backyard Metropolis, Sangotedo and Oniru.
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Ajah accounted for twenty-four suspects, whereas Oniru and Sangotedo had 14 and 13 suspects respectively. Badore had 8 suspects. Neighbouring Ikoyi and Eko Atlantic had 2 and one suspect every. Ikorodu and Alagbado on the Lagos Mainland make up the rest.
‘Evaluation of the info from the Cyber Crime Part additional exhibits that the dominant type of web crime is Courting Rip-off/On-line Courting Rip-off/Romance Rip-off. Sixty 4 % (64%) of people arrested are concerned in romance rip-off, adopted intently by “Center Man Rip-off” and “Choosing” which account for 8% and seven% respectively of these arrested.
