The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) on Thursday paraded 10 persons suspected to be yahoo boys for impersonating American soldiers fighting in Afghanistan.

The suspects were paraded at the commission’s head office in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.

Head of operation Nnaghe Obono Itam said the suspects impersonated American soldiers fighting in Afghanistan to defraud American citizens.

Itam said the suspects used American tunes to extort money from their victims and warned the public against releasing their account numbers to persons.

He said: “We have noticed that within the last three months, we have the issue of yahoo yahoo boys who appeared to have resurfaced again.

“I am glad to say that with the partnership of the Federal SARS we were able to apprehend some of them”

“The most interesting aspect of it is that we still find people that fall prey to this scam.

“We have Nigerians who pretended that they are American Soldiers that came from Afghanistan and were talking to the Americans as if they are Americans soliciting for fund”

“They extorted money from them through I-tunes. The kind of the I-tunes is $100. They find it difficult to collect the money from Nigeria but they collect I-tunes from them and dispose it online in dollars”

“We have four of them in our custody. We still have others who pretended to be American soldiers working and talking to their victims that there were lots of mineral deposits such as gold.

“They contact people online in China asking them to come and buy the mineral deposits.

“In Nigerian they collect N5, 000 each from the unsuspecting public, which they receive from banks from Nigeria.”

He said that the Commission made recovery of cash and forfeitures to the tune of N1,674,891,899 , $552,368.55 and 5,225 euros while it secured 33 convictions in the year ending.

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The rate at which Yahoo Boys are hustling to defraud foreigners no be small thing. Say no to internet frauds.

I dedicate this ftc to all the well wishers of this country.

Ipob spoiling Nigeria name everywhere

Good job.

Good

innocent boys

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EFCC dey vex. Just within last week and this week, they have caught a lot of yahoo guys. I'm impressed. No place for them to hide. They make honest and legit hustling guys feel like they are useless and not doing enough...

Why is our beloved Rivers State in the news for all the bad reasons throughout this year?!
This is terrible!

God bless your hustle

Dangote needs to acquire River state

State will be better managed under The Dangote Group

Draft them into the army.....lol

When will they arrest Gov ganduje....maina,the grass cutter man...Allison madueke and all BIG THIEVES ehn....

diswans go do Xmas and new year for kpanti.
e don burst.

Nawa oo

Idiotic unknown soldiers who don't even know what AK-47 means

Derinhenz:
Dangote needs to acquire River state

State will be better managed under The Dangote Group

It's possible o

Osheyyy!

Awon Bobby Macintosh Ati Paul Macmanaman

Awon peace keeping troops ninu Iraq, so Na ozuba and Choba Una Dey?

Them for show their face nah... No wonder there’s ITunes everywhere.

Ole!

Again

If Ganduje is walking freely and these idiots are after yahoo boys. I nor know wetin to talk sha

Okay

They must be descendants of Ganduje....

No problem they want to be soldiers,give them guns and recruit them into the Nigeria army and deploy them to go battle the boko haram troops

Chai, nawao, unemployment fuels alot of criminality

The hustle is real all dis wont stop till a revolution sweep dis nation as long as there is poverty more crimes will still happen

10? I fear efcc

ok

Awon military��,if u knw,u knw

naija4all:
No problem they want to be soldiers,give them guns and recruit them into the Nigeria army and deploy them to face boko haram fighters.

Hahaha, Una go kill person with laugh for Nairaland.com, Hian, give them guns to fight bokoharam,these are yahoo boys that fight online with their fast fingers, they send online bullet to mugus all over the world

na rivers get news 2day mayb 2mao e go b my state delta

Names pls