EFCC Arrests Man For Cloning Its Website

• “Ugochukwu’s activities amount to forgery, identity theft, impersonation and cybersquatting.”

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has apprehended one Udochukwu Ugochukwu Simeon for allegedly creating a fraudulent phony e-mail address of the commission.

Simeon was accused of using the email to defraud unsuspecting victims.

Ekohotblog gathered that the 26-year-old suspect created an Outlook email account of the Commission,

“efccnigeria.org.ng@outlook.com” and a webmail, info@efcc-nigeria.org.ng which he uses to impersonate the EFCC.

The commission said investigation by its Cybercrimes Unit at the headquarters, Abuja indicates that the suspect also uses the two fake e-mail accounts to send messages to his victims, while posing as an officer of the commission trying to help his victims recover their stolen monies.

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“Before his arrest on April 21, 2021, the suspect had already received over $3,000 (Three Thousand US Dollars) from some of his victims.

“Ugochukwu’s activities amount to forgery, identity theft, impersonation and cybersquatting.”

It added that he will be charged to court upon the completion of the investigation.