A doctor turned professional hacker, Michael Williams, 28, has been arrested by the police in Lagos for allegedly obtaining a Porsche saloon car, valued at N28 million, by false pretences.
Williams, the police said, used tunnel.com to generate a fake bank credit of N28 million into the account of the car owner, Abidogun Adewale on March 23.
Adewale, who confirmed through Internet banking portal, that the amount was lodged in, got a shock at the bank when he went to withdraw the money.
He was told no money was paid into his account.
Realising he had been scammed of his vehicle, Adewale, the police said, wrote a petition leading to the arrest of the suspect.
They recovered his Porsche car, as well as two exotic vehicles in Delta and Imo states.
Parading the suspect yesterday , Police Commissioner Imohimi Edgal said investigation showed the suspect had softwares that could shutdown Close Circuit Television (CCTV) for 67 minutes.
Edgal said: โThe suspect requested for the sellerโs bank account number and made it look like he had paid him through the fake alert to his phone using http tunnel.com. The suspect drove the car away unknown to the seller that he had been scammed. Based on the complaint, a manhunt was launched on the fleeing suspect and he was arrested in Lekki.
โDuring interrogation, he confessed to have committed the crime. He also led detectives to Asaba, Delta State, where the stolen Porsche car was recovered. He also led detectives to Owerri, Imo State, where two Toyota Camry saloon cars he stole in a similar manner were recovered.
โThe suspect has a good mastery of cyber environment and he creates a credit card through cyber ghost 12. When the credit card matures, it is then funded through a hacked swiss account. He manipulates any transaction anyone is doing through swiss account and wires the fund to his contrived credit card.
โThis is possible with the aid of cyber ghost 12, a virtual private network. He further stated that through the credit card, he bought softwares he needed to work and protect his job to avoid being traced. Such softwares are known as vpn and word cyber protector e.g daredevil. It also enable them to do deductions and transactions per dollar from every domicilliary account.โ
Speaking to reporters, Williams said he broke into 360 codes, adding that he usually hacked the credit cards of Hollywood actor, John Travolta, and other celebrities.
The suspect, who said he was a trained doctor, allegedly worked with Tolu and Eko Hospitals before relocating to Canada, where he acquired hacking skills.
He said: โIn Canada, the building I was staying was filled up. I had to move in with a man from Israel where I learnt about hacking.
โI get money online not from any individual. It is a free world online. I have no idea how much I have made. It is about software made easy online. When you are a hacker, everything online is easy. You monitor your mails, particularly the ones with transactions on Swiss account .
โYou monitor anyone with transaction from one million dollars to a billion dollars and then divert it online and then secure your security. You then fund it on your credit card and use it to buy any software or anything you want online.
โI hack the swiss accounts of celebrities because they are the ones who usually have such money. One of my victims is John Travolta, he does transactions every week. I hacked into his Swiss account with 360 codes.
โBanks in Nigeria are not like those abroad. They do not have professional hackers working for them. They are not secured and very easy for any hacker to break in. When you are a hacker, you are a bank to yourself and you do not need any bank accounts.โ
