NEMESIS has caught up with a 36
year old cosmetic seller, Daniel
Obasi, who also is a serial facebook
account hacker after he posed as the
Deputy governor of two states in the
South West.
Before the long hands of the law
caught up with him, five influential
Nigerians had fallen prey to his
rooster and bull stories and were
handsomely duped.
Vanguard gathered that Obasi who
hails from Imo State and resides in
Port Harcourt, River State hacked
into the Facebook accounts of the
Ondo and Lagos state deputy
governors Alhaji Lasisi Oluboyo and
Alhaja Oluranti Idiat Adebule
respectively and made good money
from their unsuspecting friends and
acquitances.
The suspect who was paraded
alongside other criminals at the state
police headquarters confirmed to
Vanguard during an interview that
he specialises in hacking to the face
book account of prominent
Nigerians in a bid to dupe their
unsuspecting friends.
Internetbusiness
Obasi said frustration drove him into
the illicit business after his cosmetics
business nose dived due to paucity of
funds and in a bid to survive he
ventured into the Internet business.
According to him, he succeeded in
hacking into the account of the two
governors and was working on other
deputy governors facebook account
when detectives traced him to his
residence in River state where he
was arrested and subsequently
detained.
Speaking on his arrest, Obasi who
did not deny the crime said
frustration forced him into a life of
cyber crime. He said he resorted to
using the Facebook accounts of the
notable personalities because he was
sure his victims will easily fall for his
tricks.
“I am Daniel from Imo State but live
in Port Harcourt. I opened a separate
account of Deputy Governors and I
used it to chat with people on the
net. I did not hack into their
accounts; I only opened new
accounts on their behalf. I use it to
communicate with people. I have
never hacked into their accounts.
“I was doing cosmetic business
before. But when my money was
stolen inside my shop and there was
no money to re-stock my shop, I
have no choice than to look for a
way to survive that was why I went
into cyber crime. I have not been
long in this business. I have only
clone accounts of Ondo and Lagos
States Deputy Governors and they
have blocked the accounts now,” he
explained.
But Police sources said Obasi did not
only clone accounts but would hack
into the accounts of the deputy
governors using a particular
software. The police said large sums
of money were paid into his bank
accounts. Vanguard gathered from
Police detectives that Obasi has been
using the cloned accounts to chat
with friends, siblings and political
associates of the Deputy Governors
telling them of contracts to be given
out by their state governments.
“According to him, he would \usually
ask the unsuspecting friends of his
victim to pay money into a specific
accounts to help them facilitate
contracts in the offices of the two
Deputy governors. Obasi said that he
was arrested by detectives from the
state command, who pretended to be
interested in a contract to be
awarded from the office of the
deputy governor .
“The detectives presented themselves
as representatives of a tailors’ union
and they said they are interested in
a contract that would soon be
awarded by the office of the Deputy
governor of Ondo state. “ They
however insisted that they want to
pay directly into my account to help
facilitate the contract. I did not know
that they are police detectives that
was how I was arrested “
Obasi who told Vanguard that he was
pushed into the business after he
was frustrated out of business, did
not however deny the offence and
attributed the crime to the
handiwork of the devil and
frustration.
“Frustrations led me into this unholy
business after the collapse of my
business, I never hacked into the
Facebook accounts of these deputy
governors, but opened a separate
account on their behalf to
communicate with people on net and
used it to dupe only about five or six
persons”
Speaking on how the suspect was
arrested, the state Commissioner of
Police, Mike Ogbodu explained that
Obasi had been using various
accounts of Deputy governors to
dupe some of his unsuspecting
victims before he was nabbed. The
police Chief said that the suspect has
confessed to opening clone Facebook
accounts on behalf of notable
personalities in the country and
using them to defraud unsuspecting
members of the public.
Juicycontracts
Ogbodu listed some of the Face book
account being operated by Obasi to
include that of the state Deputy
Governor, Alhaji Oluboyo and his
counterpart in Lagos State,Dr
Oluranti Idiat Adebule. According to
Ogbodu, the suspect usually attracts
his victims with juicy contracts
promising to help them facilitate it
but not without soliciting for money
to be dropped into his account.
The Police Chief confirmed that an
unspecified sum of money has been
deposited into the account of the
internet fraudster. The suspect,
according to the Commissioner, of
police has made and confessional
statement and that detectives are
already on the trail of other internet
fraudsters. Ogbodu declared that”
We will soon track them down. It’s a
matter of time and we will arraign
them in court.”
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