15 internet fraudsters also known as yahoo boys have been convicted by a Federal High Court sitting in Kubwa, FCT.
Justice O. I. Adelaja in his ruling sentenced the accused to various jail terms for cyber fraud.
They were jailed after they pleaded guilty to the charges.
The convicts are identified as:
Emmanuel Ndubuisi Junior, Obinna Favour, Azuh Chidubem, Christopher Enaho, Abdullahi Sani, Atoyebi Damilare James, Chinonso Peter and Israel Samuel. Others are Matthew Gideon, Eugene Joseph Boniface and Derick Beshel. The rest are: Suleiman Dauda, Aliu Dauda, Ikechukwu Idris and Godwin Ifeanyi.
One of the charges read: “that you Emmanuel Ndubuisi Junior aka Daniel Howard sometime in 2021 within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did cheat by personation when you misrepresented yourself to be one Daniel Howard a citizen of Brazil and a crypto investment manager on Gmail address danielhowardsteve@gmail.com with intent to defraud whereby you obtained the sum of Seven Thousand Eight Hundred Dollars ($7,800) from one Sophia and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 321 of the Penal Code Act (Abuja) Cap 532, LFN 2004 and punishable under Section 324 of the same Act”.
Justice Adelaja convicted and sentenced Junior to one-year jail term or an option of fine of N2 million, while he will also forfeit $7,800 to the Federal Government. Favour on his part bagged one-year jail term or an option of fine of N1 million.
Chidubem bad one-year jail term with an option of fine of N1 million with Ifeanyi bagging one-year jail term or a fine of N500,000.
The other convicts had non-custodial sentencing of diverse hours of community service which will be supervised by officers of the Correctional Service.
All the convicted fraudsters will forfeit their phones to the Federal Government.
