Polytechnic student, two others jailed four months for Internet fraud in Ibadan

Equity P.I. Ajoku of the Federal High Court, Ibadan on Wednesday, March 20, 2019, indicted three people, incorporating an undergrad in a Southwest-based Polytechnic, who were arraigned by the EFCC.

The convicts stowed four months prison term for including in digital related violations. They are Segun Isaac (a Polytechnic understudy, who hoodwinked his exploited people under the name Tracie Morgan); Olamide O. Samuel and Afolabi Wasiu.

They were accused of acquiring under misrepresentation, an offense in spite of Section 22(3) (b) and culpable under Section 22(4) of the Cyber Crimes (Prohibition, Prevention Etc) Act 2015. Isaac and Olamide were at first on two-check and five-tally charges individually, while Afolabi was initially summoned on an eight-tally charge.

The Commission consented to supplant the first accuses of a one tally charge after their legal counselor, Beauty Ekah, drove them to a request deal so as to induce the court to temper equity with benevolence.

Isaac's charge, which mirrors others' tone, peruses: "That you Segun Isaac (otherwise known as Tracie Morgan, Cara Coppedge) at some point in 2019, at Ibadan inside the Ibadan purview of this Honorable court, deceitfully imitated one Tracie Morgan a white female by means of your email [email protected] exhaustive a PC framework and system to one Alan so as to acquire the total of USD $600 (Six hundred United States of America Dollars) and subsequently carried out an offense as opposed to Section 22 (3)(b) and culpable under Section 22(4) of the Cyber Crimes (Prohibition, Prevention Etc)Act,2015.

The prison term produce results from their day of capture.