Kwara state High Court sitting in Ilorin, the state capital Friday sentenced two internet fraudsters to six months imprisonment each.
The convicts are Okoro Raymond and Ogundowole Tosin.
Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had charged the duo to court on offences that border on internet fraud and other related offences.
The convicts were charged to court on separate charges.
The charges read: “That you, Okoro Raymond, sometime between March and September 2019 within the judicial division of the Kwara State High Court, fraudulently induced some unsuspecting Nigerians vide your created WhatsApp platform, winners chapel investment with your phone number 09010197532 to deliver properties to you to wit: money totalling #200,000 under the guise of their investing and making double gains and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 321 of the penal code and punishable under section 324 of the same penal
code.”
“That you , Ogundowole Tosin (a.k.a) CLARISSA DOSS) Sometime in October 2019 or thereabout at Ilorin, Kwara State within the jurisdiction of this honourable Court attempted to commit an offence of cheating by pretending to be one Clarissa Doss, presenting yourself to be a white woman, a property agent who has a property to lease at popular castlegate subdivision, New Jersey, United States, to one Hillary Kurtz as it is contained in your gmail account, clarrisadossa@gmail.com and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 95 and 321 of the penal code law and punishable under section 322 of the same law.”
The pleaded guilty to the charges.
Delivering his judgment, presiding Judge Mahmood Abdulgafar however convicted and sentenced them to six months imprisonment.
Justice Abdulgafar ordered that the phones, laptops and money recovered from their bank accounts be forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.