CRIME DOES NOT PAY: 20-year-old Yahoo Boy Sentenced to 30 Days in Jail for Scamming White Women.
A Kwara state high court, sitting in Ilorin, on Monday sentenced a 20-year-old boy, Oke Gideon to 30 days imprisonment.
He was found guilty of offences bordering on romance scam and internet fraud by Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar.
A statement by the media unit of the Ilorin Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, said the long arm of the law caught up with Gideon on May 4, 2021, when he was arrested by operatives of the agency following Intelligence reports on his nefarious activities.
“Upon arrest, he was profiled and volunteered statements, admitting to committing the crime.
” In his confessional statement, dated May 6, 2021, Gideon admitted that he engaged in dating scam, live scam and other internet fraud-related offences.”
He was subsequently arraigned in court on Friday, July 2, 2021 on two counts to which he pleaded guilty.
In his judgment on Monday, Justice Abdulgafar, convicted and sentenced Gideon based on his confessional statement, his plea to the charge and exhibits tendered against him before the court.
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Crime does not pay, and it’s never an option to commit cybercrime just because others are doing it and getting away with it. The rise in cybercrime committed by youths especially in Nigeria in the name of making fast money is alarming.
It’s high time the Government under the leadership of president Muhammadu Buhari wake up to it’s duties by coming up with a good plan to end cybercrime in Nigeria.
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Nigerian youths are hard-working, and if the government of the day can come up with better plans such as setting up manufacturing industries around the States that will create jobs and put food on the table, then perhaps the rise in cybercrime will be reduced to its minimum.
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