Shimmering Joseph, a 24-300 and sixty five days-outdated suspected online scammer has been arrested by operatives of the Nigeria Safety and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Osun Verbalize Uncover.
Disclosing this through an announcement made on hand to DAILY POST on Thursday in Osogbo, the spokesperson, Adigun Daniel, printed that the suspect used to be arrested at his discipline, Zone 6, Apete Verbalize, Owode-Ede, on Wednesday, January 26, 2022.
Adigun, who disclosed that Johnson, a National Diploma (ND) certificate holder from Auchi Polytechnic, Edo Verbalize, mentioned that the suspect had fraudulently advertised on his Instagram take care of the sales of eggs in a non-existent farm called Different Farm he used to be working which is found in Ogbogbo, Ijebu Ode, Ogun Verbalize.
The Osun NSCDC spokesperson defined that he had efficiently scammed a 37-300 and sixty five days-outdated Halima Ashifa, a resident of Sango Ota, Ogun Verbalize, outdated to luck ran out for him.
In keeping with Adigun, “Halima Ashifa signified ardour within the provision of eggs and established contact with the suspect.
“She within the extinguish made a cash switch of a total sum of fifty-5 thousand Naira (N55,000) in two instalments of seven thousand and 5 hundred naira (N7500) and forty-seven thousand and 5 hundred naira (N47,500) correct for the eggs on January 21 and 25, 2022, respectively.
“The cash used to be deposited in a GTBank myth, which the suspect claimed used to be the myth belonging to his firm secretary. Whereas, the myth amount surely belongs to a Point Of Sales (POS) operator at Owode-Ede.”
Whereas disclosing that the crime committed by the suspect used to be tantamount to obtaining cash under spurious pretence, Adigun mentioned that he had violated Section 1(1) A(C) of the Developed Rate Fraud and Assorted Associated Offences Act, 2006.
He defined that he contravened the act consequently of he fraudulently obtained cash from his victim sparkling that he had no eggs for sale and he didn’t maintain any poultry farm.
The advise spokesperson, however, mentioned that the suspect might maybe well be charged to court within the extinguish consequently of he has volunteered confessional statements to verify his culpability.
