{"id":92385,"date":"2024-12-13T22:17:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T22:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=92385"},"modified":"2024-12-13T22:17:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T22:17:08","slug":"efcc-arrests-suspected-fraudster-for-allegedly-duping-139-australians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=92385","title":{"rendered":"EFCC arrests \u00a0suspected fraudster for allegedly duping 139 Australians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,\u00a0 have arrested a suspected online fraudster, \u00a0Osang Usie Otukpa, for allegedly duping 139 Australians to the tune of\u00a0$AUD8,000,000 (Eight Million Australian Dollars).<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He was picked up in a stake out at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos upon arrival from the United States of America on Friday, December 6, 2024.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Otukpa, who goes by five aliases, namely:\u00a0Ford Thompson, Oscar Donald Tyler,\u00a0Michael Haye, Jose Vitto and Kristin Davidson\u00a0scammed the victims by luring them on the social media to invest in his rogue cryptocurrency\u00a0investment platform,\u00a0Liquid Asset Group , LAG.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The proceeds of the alleged crimes were routed to his bank accounts\u00a0through a global cryptocurrency exchange platform.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He\u00a0would be charged to court\u00a0upon conclusion of\u00a0investigations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u25cf By<strong> Dele Oyewale, <\/strong>Spokesperson, EFCC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,\u00a0 have arrested a suspected online fraudster, \u00a0Osang Usie Otukpa, for allegedly duping 139 Australians to the tune of\u00a0$AUD8,000,000 (Eight Million Australian Dollars). He was picked up in a stake out at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos upon arrival from the United States of America [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":62638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5786],"tags":[6888,6887,354],"class_list":["post-92385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-statement","tag-6888","tag-australians","tag-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}