EFCC Parades Suspected ‘Yahoo Boys, Girls’ In Abuja

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has captured seven web fraudsters known as 'Yippee Yahoo' at the Sunshine Estate, Gwarinpa, a city at the Federal Capital Territory, in Abuja.

Succinct News comprehends that in an announcement by means of Tony Orilade, who named the captured exploited people as Emmanuel Ochuko Okume, Asuquo Happiness, Agboje Lucky, Lucky Ijire, Karo Ijire, Chinaka Chijoke Promise and Ibrahim Adiat.

Examinations made into their deceptive exercises, which spread over months, demonstrated that they focused on taking individuals' characters via web-based networking media, particularly Facebook and Instagram.

The announcements read: "They at that point utilize the stolen personalities to make phony profiles, utilizing same to build up false connections, with the point of swindling their unfortunate casualties."

A portion of the epithets used to execute online misrepresentation, incorporate James Bord, Tom Clanson, Paul Hanson, Clinton Maher, Richard Jordan and David Morgan.

"One of them utilizes phishing as his usual way of doing things where he conveys mass messages and malware with infections, which when the objective taps on the message, they can obtain entrance into their injured individual's data.

"Another cases he goes to the "dull web" to purchase hacked logins to search for any business exchange and deceive the exchange utilizing another record."

The announcement further read: "One of the suspects admitted to making more than 20 online networking accounts.

"They further admitted to having at different occasions made $5,479, $4,900,$1,500, $2,500, $7,000, $27,000, which were gotten through Western Union, Bitcoin, exchangers, and through Nigerians based outside the nation, who have seaward records."