The Enugu Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), has gotten the conviction of four web fraudsters regularly named Yahoo Boys.
The counter unite organization summoned the four convicts before Justice F. O. Giwa Ogunbanjo of the Federal High Court Enugu, Enugu State on Friday January 14.
They have been indicted on costs verging on phony and pantomime to dupe.
Mugshot photos of two of the criminals, Orji Okpara Chimaobi and Okechukwu Kelvin, which affirmed them grinning, have turned into a web sensation.
Following trustworthy knowledge stories on the activities of fraudsters cheating clueless casualties of their hard-acquired income inside Enugu and its environs, agents of the EFCC swung into movement and inside the course of captured the convicts at fluctuated places all through the city.
Gadgets used in carrying out the wrongdoing much the same as phones, workstations along with the false messages printed out of their phones and PCs notwithstanding their confession booth explanations have been offered and conceded in verification by the court.
Conveying judgment on the occasions on Friday, Justice Ogunbanjo expressed the court situated dependence on the unchallenged declarations of the arraignment witnesses and all of the uncovers offered.
He held that the arraignment had set up its case past reasonable questions.
Subsequently, three of the convicts, Orji Okpara Chimaobi, Ngene Emmanuel and Okechukwu Kelvin have been condemned to 2 years in prison with plausibility of magnificent of 1,000,000 Naira each, though Eneh Nelson Chukwudire was condemned to 1 a year with probability of 1,000,000 Naira brilliant.
