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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said it arrested an internet fraudster, Onyebuchi Nwalozie Julius for impersonating Dr. Godwin Emefiele the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Onyebuchi, a native of Ngor-Okpala, Imo State is currently cooling off in one of the detention facilities of the EFCC, in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.
He said he was into estate management, and confessed to the EFCC via verbal and written statements that he posed as the CBN Governor with the email account: [email protected] to defraud his victims.
He said he has successfully defrauded one Mr. Omar Es Sh Deeb, an Arab National, whom he said made payments to him through Western Union.
He also confessed that he specialized in Business Email Compromise (BEC) and that his modus operandi involves searching for email addresses via Google search and sending convincing emails to his prospective victims and defrauding them as soon as they fall prey to whatever scam he had planned out.
According to the EFCC, though Onyebuchi confessed to have benefited as much as N4.5million from his criminality on the cyber space, evidence gathered so far, may prove otherwise.
The anti-graft agency said investigation was still ongoing, and that responses are still being awaited from some of the finance houses he transacted with.