AAU Undergraduate Fraudster Nabbed For Defrauding
People With Cloned Website
A student of Ambrose Alli University who specializes
in defrauding unsuspecting members of the public using cloned websites has been
arrested.
A 300 level student of Ambrose Alli University,
studying Library and Information Science identified as Mayaki Best has been
arrested by men of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command
after he was traced to Edo state.
He was arrested for posing as an online custom
auctioneer after he cloned the website
of Lagos State College of Health Technology and duped several admission seekers
of large sums of money.
Mayaki was tracked to Edo State following a petition
signed by the Provost of Lagos State College of Health Technology, Dr Moyo
Kasim, on the fraudulent activities of one Dr. Odeh Philip Oteche, who cloned
the website of the institution and requesting for varied sums of money from
admission applicants.
He had cloned admission application and bank details,
stating that applicants pay N2,500 for admission form. Mayaki who was in
possession of the phone line given in the fraudulent bank details, was arrested
with three ATM Cards, which carried Otache Philip Odeh, the owner of the
fraudulent account.
He was also found with other ATM cards of Access bank
and UBA with the name, Abua Sunday. In his confession to the police, Mayaki
stated that he was the brain behind the cloning of the institution’s website
and he had withdrawn series of deposits made to the accounts by different
applicants.
He added that he started admission racketing when
online custom auction of automobile and seized items failed to yield expected
returns. Apart from these, the suspect disclosed that he also uses dating
platforms for scamming.
Through the cloned institution’s website, Mayaki
stated, he had collected deposits ranging from N2,500 to N157,000, adding that
one Charles and Ganiyu Balogun now at large were accomplices. He stated that he
opened Access Bank and UBA accounts with Sunday Abua for Nigerian Customs
auction vehicles and goods.
He disclosed that the three facebook accounts of
female custom officers he had been using. Also found in his possession, were
different soft copies of unfilled custom papers.
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