EFCC Arraigns 19-Year-Old Over Internet Scam
A 19-year-old, Ojosipe Adebayo, has been arraigned by EFCC before a Lagos State High Court over Internet scam.
EFCC released the press statement below:
A 19-year-old suspected internet fraudster Ojosipe Adebayo, has been arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, before Justice A.O Ipaye of the Lagos State High Court, Ikeja on a two- count -charge bordering on possession of a document containing false pretences and forgery.
The defendant is allegedly a member of a syndicate of internet fraudsters that specialize in using fake cheques and scam mails to defraud unsuspecting victims.
When the charges were read to the accused person, he pleaded not guilty. One of the charges read: “That you Ojosipe Adebayo (a.k.a. “Marty Jason” and “Candice”) on or about the 8th day of May, 2014 at Lagos, within the Ikeja Judicial Division had in your possession a document in which you represented yourself to be a single lady called Candice from Trenton, New Jersey, United States who helps the needy to organise Charity concerts and also helps the homeless to get funds for Motherless Babies Homes which representations you knew or ought to have known to be false having regard to be circumstances of this case”.
In view of the plea of the defendant, the prosecution counsel, Ayokunle Fayanju prayed the court for a trial date and also for the defendant to be remanded in prison custody. However, defence counsel, Michael Asai asked for a short adjournment in order to file an application for bail. Justice Ipaye subsequently remanded the defendant in Kirikiri Maximum Prison and adjourned the matter to May 21, 2015, for hearing of the bail application and commencement of trial.
Media & Publicity 5th May, 2015
Message.. Social netwrk re doin more harm dan gud in sm kids nowadays
Good for him. Hope this will serve as a warning to others involved.
Hmmmmmmmm see his face. At 19, shouldn’t he be in school? Writing his senior high exams? Or let’s say he’s finished, should he not be in the university or its equivalent getting an education? Now see what he has done to himself just because of greed. The greed for money smh
Hmmm,wat luv for money cn do.
Imagine jst 19.God help dis generation oo.
At 19 all he could think of is ths,,let him face the music.
He looks so innocent
Social media not meant for kids.
Kai
Na really catch them young!…
Let him face it so that his mates would learn from him.. Rubbish
Yea baby, get rich quick and die young; mumu
Hungry Nigerians.
What’s the meaning of this ur comment
kai.19 n he’s going after mony lik Dis.
At 19, instead of schooling you are scaming
What a pity! This will be a lesson do others in his shoe.
With his baby face…..them full lagos
Hmmm at his age
At 19 he should be in school not internet for heavens sake. Am sure he still stay with his parents
too young for this
He wants fast money so now see where it has landed him
Let him face the music
his mates are going to school.
I pity him, its probably peer pressure. after all a lot of pple did things they were not proud of at his age but still turned out well but were just lucky that there was no media to carry the news.i hope he learns from this mistake
Its so sad