UNILORIN UNDERGRADUATE JAILED 20 YEARS FOR YAHOO YAHOO
A 25-year-old undergraduate of the University of Ilorin, Imonina Kingsley has been
sentenced to 20 years imprisonment by Justice Mohammed L. Shuaibu of the Federal
High Court, sitting in Kaduna on a four-count charge of impersonation,
possession of fraudulent documents and attempt to obtain money by false
pretences preferred against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC.
Kingsley, who is to spend five years
on each of the four count charges gave his address as at the time of his arrest
as Rubby Hostel, Tipper Garage, Tanke Ilorin, Kwara State. He hails from Ndokwa
East Local Government Area of Delta state.
The suspect who was arrested on
April 4, 2008, during a special operation code-named, Operation Cyber
Storm1 at Wave Network Net Cyber Café located along Pipeline Road, Tanke,
Ilorin, Kwara State, used the false identity of a Mr. Thomas Duke, a supposed
gay from the United Kingdom with the email address given asthomasduke4luv@yahoo.com to
send fraudulent mails with intent to defraud the unsuspecting victims.
In other instances, he also claimed
to be one Muyiwa Akanbi, a Beninoise and Mary Jone.
In his confessional statement, Kingsley
admitted that the email address: thomasduke4luv@yahoo.com belongs to
him and that he is into the “business” to make money and pays his fees at
the University of Ilorin, Kwara State where he
was studying Geology and Mineral Sciences. He also confessed that on
February 12th, 2008, he sent an e-mail to Luis Barco, attaching a photograph of
an unknown man which he downloaded from the internet and claimed to be a gay by
the name Muyiwa Akanbi.
At another time, he mailed a message
and presented himself to one Mr. Andrew Corrigan as a UK-born gay
but based in Africa. Another of his victim is Mr. Christopher De Troy
of America, whom he hoodwinked into parting with $1,000 via Western Union
when he presented himself as a gay from the Republic of Benin.
Na wa for you Nigerian guys o, are these those that will take over from Jonathan?
THANKS FOR YOUR TIME.
GBOYETADE
