Prelude

It is important to note that some of the names, individuals, groups, places and establishments, including several of the settings are actually real. It is not the wish of the writer to portray any of them in bad light but an imaginative creative plot to blend fiction with reality and to also showcase the efficacy and contribution of those mentioned here in our day to day lives. Although, several readers might see or view the sequential events of the story as something impossible, but again, it is important to comprehend that nothing is impossible in our present technological propel generation. The world as they say is now a ‘global village’ and in reality we are now closer and more advanced than our ancestors.

The invention of the computer and the subsequent coming of the internet no doubt have made human transactions flexible across the globe. Our hitherto conservative methods of doing things like letter writing, telephoning, marketing, advertising, including news reporting and bank transactions are now obsolete and part of historical archives in most countries across the world. Most of these human activities are now carried out easily and more efficiently through the internet. But the coming of the internet no doubt has not stopped or eradicated criminality in our society, rather it has refined the criminals and galvanized their greed effortlessly. The world today has more sophisticated criminals and sophisticated tools to carry out their crimes without even pointing a gun at anyone. All a computer savvy criminal now needs is a computer and internet access and then he or she has the world in their pocket.

The story here is an illustration of what is actually possible to do or has been done or in the process of being carried out by various cyber-crime criminals across our world through the flexible power of the internet. However, the final decision to believe in the possibility of the events here or not is still yours as the reader. I believe many readers might have come across similar circumstances in real life or read about something like this elsewhere. But all the same, this is a different fictitious story, embellished with realism. This is the imaginative story of Kenneth Edward Solomon, a rich and smart American entrepreneur who greedily fell into the enticing internet trap of the Free-Hands one of the most daring and flamboyant cyber-crime gangs in Nigeria and one of the most wanted in the world.

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