Two suspected internet fraudsters, impersonating I.G on Facebook got arrested by Nigerian police, They specialise in defrauding policemen and members of the public by parading themselves as senior officers, a report by Punch has revealed.
Their victims included policemen seeking promotion and officers, who wanted to participate in peacekeeping missions outside Nigeria.
It was learnt that the fraudsters met their match recently after they impersonated the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, to defraud a contractor, Shuaibu Semion, of N800,000.
It was reported that they defrauded Semion on the pretext of helping him to renew a contract involving supply of gas to the Nigeria Police Force.
City Round gathered that they also acted as the protocol officers to the fake IGP, to perpetrate the fraud.
Our correspondent learnt that Semion got trapped in the fraudulent act in January 2019 when he hooked up with the fraudsters, who presented themselves as the IG on Facebook.
They reportedly asked him to pay a sum of N800,000 into the protocol officer’s account to prepare the “documents” for the renewal of the contract.
It later dawned on Semion that he had been defrauded when the protocol officers started acting strangely on the phone after receiving the payment.
City Round learnt that Semion reported the fraud at the office of IGP Intelligence Response Team in Abuja and a team of detectives were mobilized to track down the suspects Loveday Ugochukwu and his alleged accomplice, Ugochukwu Ohia.