Fraudster poses as woman on Facebook to dupe man of N1.5M
The EFCC Kaduna Zonal Office, today, Monday, November 27, arrraigned one Abubakar Isiyaku before Justice Mohammed Yahaya of the State High Court Kano on a one count charge bodering on Criminal Breach of Trust and Obtaining by False Pretence. Investigations into the case revealed that, the accused who allegedly specialises in disguising as a female, fraudulently opened a facebook account with profile name Hajia Fatima Mohmammed and through this medium, continiously chat and eventually exchanged numbers with the complainant. Along the line they arranged to meet one on one, but being that Abubakar was not a female as he protrayed all this while lied to the complainant on the day they were to meet that his mum was hospitalised in Lagos. Having realised that he had earned the trust of the complainant, he decided to furthered his plan by informing him that his mum needs to be flown out for an emergency medical procedure in Saudi Arabia and would need the sum of Five Hundred T...