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How one little mistake exposed Nigeria’s socialite, Hushpuppi’s source of wealth and why we all should be worried.

FYI, this piece isn’t completely about Hushpuppi, it’s more about your cyber safety.

If you follow handles like Instablog9ja on Instagram, you must have come across Hushpuppi. He’s one of the individuals that musician, 9ice, mentioned in his controversial hit song Living Things which was widely believed as promoting internet fraud(sters) in Nigeria; although 9ice refuted that on Channels TV’s Rubbin’ Minds with Ebuka.

Hushpuppi is probably the most familiar name among the young Nigerians mentioned on 9ice’s song and has been in the center of controversies including exchange of words with music superstars Davido, Phyno and KCee. This prompted a vast inquiry into his source of income. There was little confirmation and more hearsay until he took to Snapchat to ask some of his friends for money. Responding to those asking what he did for living, he said he begged for a living. Looking at the facts that subsequently emerged, he might have actually meant it.



In his bid to show off his rich friends who send a lot of money to him, Hushpuppi uploaded a screenshot of GTBank credit alert of NGN300,000 with an email address that made us curious. The bank account was registered with a suspicious email address – jwoodscrane@yahoo.com

A “social engineer” (SE) took this email address and ran it through a virtual mail registry. Then, performed a number of mappings to determine the social profile of this anonymous identity. When the SE compared the email from the virtual registry with the email from Hushpuppi‘s bank alert, it was a 100% match. But this is not the end. A step further to put a face to the mail address was also done and we see the email address was mapped to a single profile on Facebook, no suggestions or similar profiles at all. It is mapped directly to a single Facebook account: Jane Woodscrane

The account has just a few pictures with the usual Facebook privacy feature turned on, which is said to be very peculiar with Nigerian scammers.

According to the SE, Hushpuppi probably has more aces up his sleeves beyond creating fake accounts and using such to get money from unsuspecting individuals.

Why you should be worried
Many times, unsuspecting Nigerians will have their accounts hacked or cloned. Then the person behind the act would start reaching out to the friends of the individual; asking them for money and other favours. This is why it is very important for everyone to take action to ensure that they have not been hacked or cloned.

When a hacker hacks an account, he or she would probably change the access password and takeover the account. What often happens in Nigeria is the original account holder would go and create another one and the hacker would have a field day with the first account. It may be Facebook or an email. However, creating a new account isn’t enough, there are ways to report the hacked account to Facebook and Google.

I also recommend that you search for your name on Facebook and Google, just to know what will turn up in case someone else has created another account in your name and is targeting your friends.

Take it a step further and run a Google Image search to ensure that your image isn’t being used by someone else to deceive people. It is easy to do. Just go to image.google.com, drag and drop an image into the search box and matches will come up.

9jaDoomCountry:
THIS IS A SAD DEVELOPMENT BUT MY JOY IN IT IS THAT THERE REMANDED IN POLICE STATION. NIGERIAN POLICE STATION BTW.
THE POLICE WILL BE ACTUALLY BE THEIR FRIEND.




NO BE ACTION BELOW DEM DEY FIND? THEIR FRIEND WEY BE POLICE GO GIVE IT TO DEM NYAFU NYAFU.



OP YOU NO ADD DIA PICTURES. I HELEP YOU ADD AM.

philip0906:
Ofcourse that is the only reason why he/she doubts the story. If it was a young male of similar age who committed the crime, he/she would have never questioned or doubted the story.

Awon eleribu!

Cvesta:
I seriously doubt the story. They could be lesbians who were caught alongside the 17 years old and the parents change the narrative while at the same time punishing the maids

joytothewise:
This one is female to female rape case o.... very deep n strange!!

olisaEze:
Parents of nowadays, why will a 17 yr old need an 18 yr old babysitter for herself and her 2 yr old sister? What sort of adults are we raising in this country?

larryUG:
Is it that people dont read before commenting or that they find it hard to understand after reading? jeez....

Roman7:
they said house maid.....it didn't specify if they were boys or gals

plus this rape thing should be looked into its becoming sth else.

The maids, from Benue state, were identified as Peace Sunday, aged 19 and Bose Augustine aged 18

pmoye:
Here goes our "innocent" Nigerian girls who are ready to castigate all men as rapists. You see your life, Nigerian ladies? The only reason we have not been having so much news about y'all is simply because y'all have never been subjected to policing attention. The more attention is focused on our women the more we will eventually discover that Nigerian women are probably the worse rapists and sexual predators!

We should not allow the present knee-jerk reaction to the heinous rape cases cloud our judgement as a nation in instituting laws. Most laws that are being instituted are gender-specific, mostly directed at the male gender. An example is the idea of cutting the rapist/defiler's di.ck. Let's even entertain that for a minute, and assume it is passed into law. What then happens when we catch female rapist/defiler, what are you going to cut away from her body parts?

Any evil men are capable of, women are probable of much more, and so our nation should evolve laws robust enough to punish offenders in a gender nonspecific way.

esti98:
It is a very stupid act
But why will a 17 year old need to be put in care of maids. I trust ajepako, it is the 17 year girl that will even be taken care of her younger sis.

End time things.

kenzysmith:
some men re just wicked how much be ashawo 300 naira

Nigerian billionaire based in Dubai Hushpuppi was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Intelligence and the International Police.
He was picked up together with his friend called Woodberry in Dubai.

Their arrest was based on the account of money laundering after some cases of fraud was linked to them.

According to sources, Interpol arrested Hushpuppi for Covid-19 ventilator $35million fraud which was purported to be given to Native Americans during the Corona Virus Pandemic.

Hushpuppi’s arrest was confirmed after close friends and some business faithful could not reach him because his phone was off.

It would be recalled that in 2020, a similar raid by the FBI was made on another Nigerian billionaire Mompha who was also arrested for money laundering.

fredoooooo:
This oponu no shout Buhari this time

Elzakzaky:
This omo kirikiri sha likes to talk off-point

reginaeb:
She's bothered I tell you. No woman won't be but she has to pretend to be unbothered