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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission<\/a> (EFCC) has cracked a syndicate that specialised in accessing personal data of Nigerians based overseas to defraud their friends and relations back home.<\/p>\n

This is contained in a statement signed by the commission\u2019s spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren and made available to newsmen on Friday in Ibadan.<\/p>\n

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that four members of the gang have been arrested and in EFCC custody while others are at large.<\/p>\n

Uwujaren said the commission had launched a manhunt on the suspects after receiving a petition from one Prof. Godwin Ekhaguere.<\/p>\n

He said that Ekhaguere, a professor of Mathematics who retired from the University of Ibadan, had in the petition alleged that the gang defrauded him of sums totaling N565, 500.<\/p>\n

Uwujaren said that the professor alleged that the suspected fraudsters also made him to part with MTN recharge vouchers worth N36, 000 in the scam.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe victim only realised that he had been scammed after he managed to reach his friends on the phone, who denied sending anyone to him. That prompted the petition,\u201d the agency\u2019s spokesman said.<\/p>\n

He said that the commission in the course of investigation arrested one of the suspects at an ATM point where he went to cash the money sent to him by one Pastor Osuji.<\/p>\n

Uwujaren said that Osuji was also a victim of a crime similar to that which the commission was investigating.<\/p>\n

He said that the gang\u2019s pattern of operation was familiar; saying one of them would call their would-be victim with the impression that he was an old-time friend, now based abroad.<\/p>\n

The commission\u2019s spokesperson, said one of the suspects would claim that he has a mouth-watering gift to be sent through someone who was allegedly coming home for an event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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