A young man, Abass Aminu Abdulkareem has been convicted by the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Kubwa has for internet fraud.
Justice O. I. Adelaja in his ruling sentenced Abdulkareem to community service for $270 Fraud.
The country’s anticorruption body, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC had on Tuesday, arraigned Abdulkareem on one count charge bordering on internet fraud.
The charge read
“That you, Abass Aminu Abdulkareem sometime in 2023 at Abuja within the jurisdiction of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory cheated by personation when you represented yourself on a Facebook profile page as Jeremiah Lincoln, a citizen of the United States of America and under that name obtained the sum of Two Hundred and Seventy United States Dollars ($270) from Amanda, a cousin to Jeremiah Lincoln and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 321 of the Penal Code Law (Laws of the Federation, Abuja) 1990 and punishable under Section 324 of the same Law.”
Abdulkareem pleaded guilty to the charge prompting Justice Adelaja to convict and sentence him to community service to be supervised by the Nigerian Correctional Service’s Officers.
He will also forfeit his iPhone 12 Pro and XR to the Nigerian Government.
