Justice S.A. Amobeda of the Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State on Monday, April 15, 2019, convicted and sentenced Chigozie Bright, Kingsley Anyasor, Osinachi Samdavid, Oyasi Desmond, Benice Anosike and Martins Ekpemadu to six months in prison each, for internet fraud.
\nThe six convicts were said to have committed the offences at different times and charged separately by the Uyo Zonal Office of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
\nBright, who also goes by Abdul Esther on April 5, 2019, falsely presented himself as a Syrian widow to Jose Luis Cruz Diaz through the email,abdulesther7@gmail.com.
\nAnyasor alias Rasha Ademar on March 3, 2019,\u00a0 pretended to be Rasha Ademar of Instanbul, Turkey using same to obtain money from one Jorge Davila.
\nOsinachi alias Maya Ahmed on April 4, 2019 also presented himself to one Rafiq Dayi as a\u00a0 widowed Syrian refugee, using the email,\u00a0mayaahmed093@gmail.com, with the sole aim of defrauding Rafiq.
\nOyasi alias James Williams on the other hand, pretended to be a caucasian male and obtained as much as\u00a0$226,578.96(Two Hundred and Twenty Six Thousand Five Hundred and Seventy Eight Dollars Ninety Six Cents)\u00a0from one Ribeiro Anthonia a Hong Kong Nationale, between March 5 and June 19, 2019.
\nAnosike alias Sarah Abdul on April 3, 2019, posed as a foreigner named Keri with the email,sarahabdul309@gmail.com\u00a0to defraud his unsuspecting victims.
\nEkpemadu alias Selda Abu on April 2, 2019, also faked his identity and succeeded in defrauding one Ivan Horvat.
\nThey pleaded “guilty” to the offence.
\nIn view of the guilty plea and the plea bargain agreement between the prosecution and the defence, Justice Amobeda convicted them accordingly, and gave each of them an option of N100,000 as fine.
\nThey were also ordered to forfeit all the instruments used in committing the said crime, to the Federal Government, including their three bedroom and two bedroom apartments.
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