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Thursday 25 January 2018
EFFC Arrest Yahoo Boy While He Was Trying To Withdraw #15m He Scammed From UK Lover
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, January 24, 2018, arrested one Fidelis Iruedo, a suspected love scammer, for allegedly defrauded a United Kingdom.citizen of £30,000 (N15,428,354) in a romance scam.
Luck ran out of Iruedo, 31, after a petition to the Commission by the Nigerian High Commission, London, on behalf of one Alan Digweed, a UK citizen, alleging that the suspect had defrauded his victim of the said amount of money.
Investigations by the EFCC revealed that Iruedo, who voluntarily confessed to the crime, met his victim between July and December 2017, via a date site, match.com.
The suspect, while parading as a lady, procured British passport using the.name ‘Tracy Anderson’ with which he.used to defraud the victim. He was.arrested in Abuja, during an attempt to.make withdrawal in a bank.
On arrest, items recovered from him.include: several scam letters, 3 flash.drives, 1 iphone and a laptop computer.
The suspect will be arraigned in court as soon as investigations are concluded.
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