Gbam! Yahoo boys arrested after fighting over $7,000 deal (Photos)

The police in Lagos on Thursday paraded an aggrieved fraudster,
Henry Ezechie with six others who allegedly specialise in internet
fraud.
The suspects were all arrested on Saturday at Ajah, after Ezechie
who felt cornered in a $7,090 deal he had with Kenneth Eric alias
Biggie, petitioned the police alleging that the others were
kidnappers and fraudsters.
The Nation gathered that ,detectives from the State Criminal
Investigation and Intelligence (SCIID) Panti-Yaba stormed Eric’s
Ajah residence and arrested Stephen Onwunama, Jacob Chukwuka
and two others.
However, Onwunama and Chukwuka have both denied being
criminals insisting that they were just Biggie’s friends and usually
visited his home.
Ezechie who admitted reporting to the police said he was angry
that Biggie refused to give him his 80 percent share of the loot.
“Biggie is the one owing me. We had a $7,090 deal and he refused
to give me my 80 percent share of the money and so, I took the
payment slip to the police to report. We do yahoo business
(Internet fraud). It was my deal. He is the picker and so, his share is 20 percent.
“Picker is the person who receives the money and sends to Nigeria.
He has contacts in America who pick the money and send through
money transfer. I have been doing this business for some years
now to survive, but this was my major breakthrough and he
refused to give me my money. It is dating that we do. We use
Match, Facebook and other sites,” he said.
But Eric, who admitted he was into Internet fraud, denied being a
kidnapper. He also denied defrauding Ezechie, claiming that the
deal did not click.
“Henry alleged me. He gave me a transaction of N300,000 which
did not click and he went to the police to claim that I was a
kidnapper and a fraudster. He left what we were doing and started
talking rubbish. Whoever gave him that receipt he took to the police
was just deceiving him. I do Facebook loto. We tell victims that if
they pay $800 they will win $100,000. Most of our victims are
white people because they are greedy,” he said.
Onwunama who denied being a fraudster said he only came to visit
his friend and he was arrested.
He claimed that he was a government worker in Delta State, adding
that he laid somewhere in the room when the police came and
searched everywhere.
“They found nothing on me. They searched my phones and laptop
and they didn’t see anything that has to do with fraud in it. I was
just visiting my friend and I have spent two weeks in his place. I
was to go back to Asaba on Sunday before I was arrested on
Saturday. I don’t know how it is an offence to be a friend to a fraudster,” he claimed.
Chukwuka also denied being a fraudster, insisting that he only
went to Kenneth’s place after he heard the police were there.
“I was at my house when I heard that the police were at Kenneth’s
place to arrest him that he was a kidnapper and a fraudster. So, I
went there with my younger brother to explain that I know him.
That he was not a kidnapper. That’s how I was also arrested. I did
not do anything wrong. I have never been a criminal in my life,” he
said.
Parading the suspects, Police Commissioner, Fatai Owoseni said
they will be charged to court at the completion of investigation.

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