An interesting read from the Daily Sun online

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Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 10:37 am

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The suspect and his friend, Edokpia Shola, were arrested for allegedly swindling an American, Haword Kuklin, millions of naira. Trouble started for Chukwuedo, when he allegedly designed Oceanic bank website, which he used in duping the American. He was, however, arrested when he went to withdraw the money from the bank.

Shola had earlier gone to a branch of Diamond Bank in Benin, Edo State, to withdraw some amount of money, without Chukwuedo’s consent. The bank staff, however, became suspicious when he came few minutes, after Shola had left the bank after withdrawing some money from the same account. The bank staff were said to have played along with Chukwuedo, as they invited policemen, who arrested him.

And when Chukwuedo was shown Shola’s photograph, who the bank had earlier thought was the original owner of the account, he opened up to the police. Speaking with Daily Sun, Chukwuedo said: “I am a computer wizard. There is nothing I cannot design with the computer. I manipulate the computer very well. I am assuring you that if I am left off the hook, I am going to channel my knowledge of computer to positive ventures.”The man, who described his friend, Shola, as a betrayer, gave a graphic account of their involvement in cyber crime. He said Shola was the cause of his predicament. He blamed him for implicating him in the matter. He told the police how he visited Shola in Benin City and made use of the computer throughout the night. According to him, after chatting with his victim, who is in Los Angeles, he forgot to sign out and left for Lagos.

Chukwuedo said Shola monitored his conversation with the victim through e-mail ID. And immediately the victim paid the money into his account, Shola went and printed a fake driver’s licence and used it to withdraw part of it.

He said he didn’t know that Shola went to the bank, adding that he went to another branch of the bank in Lagos, almost the same time he withdrew from the same account and the cashier became suspicious. The cashier, he said, delayed him and contacted policemen, who arrested him.

He explained that it was when the bank printed out the photograph of the person who came to withdraw money from the account that he discovered that it was Shola and quickly took the detectives to Benin City, where he was arrested. “It is unfair, he wanted to reap where he did not sow. I feel sad, very sad that I was arrested. He is a crook. If he had told me he went to the bank to withdraw some money from my account, I would not have messed up myself the way I did, God will judge him.”

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Master Baiter Joined: 02 Mar 2010 Posts: 122 Location: OZ

I love the three links under the story.

Trophy Videos · Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 5:09 pm

The devil made him do it. Mad

He is only sorry for being caught. Evil or Very Mad

Posted: Sun May 09, 2010 5:43 pm

Ha! RL Gomerism. Laughing

Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 9:34 am

@rs- yes the links somehow brought home the underlying reality of the article.
@slaphappy- of course the devil made him do it!
@the fae- no wonder the lads are at the same time so paranoid yet susceptible to on-line scams themselves.

Hello I'm New here! Joined: 15 May 2010 Posts: 2

They call it, being an accessory to a crime & a bad lad is, a had lad. Wink

Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 6:20 pm

As SlapHappy said: "He's only sorry because he got caught" and is getting butthurt about not getting his money. If he gets released, what's to stop him from doing it again? They got what they deserved and have nobody to blame but themselves. Mad

Master of Master Baiters Joined: 10 Jan 2010 Posts: 503

Pity it doesn't happen a bit more often, if it did maybe the lads would be even more jumpy than some of them are now.

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