The Delta State Police Command has paraded 123 suspected internet fraudsters. The suspects were arrested in an estate in Warri, the state capital.
Spokesperson of the command Bright Edafe, disclosed this in a video shared on Facebook on Wednesday.
Edafe said the suspects were accommodated in a particular estate.
He added that children from Kaduna, Oyo and Akwa Ibom states were lured into the estate and trapped with promises of learning BTC trading and forex, only to find themselves in “Hustlers Kingdom” (HK), a notorious cybercrime training network.
“Arrested of 123 suspected internet fraudsters in an estate in Warri Delta State.
“Some of these boys are 17 years old and deceived that they were coming to learn BTC trading and forex instead found themselves in HK(hustlers kingdom).
“We are here at Ekpan Police Station Effurun Divisional HQ, where we will be parading about 123 suspected internet fraudsters who were engaged in the business of internet fraud”, he said.
The police spokesperson said some of the boys, as young as 17, were deceived by agents flaunting fake wealth on social media, convincing them to join the fraudulent scheme.
“The agents would then lure them to the estate, where they were subjected to physical abuse and exploitation.
“Their modus operandi is that they engage their agents who go on social media to flaunt wealth that most times isn’t even theirs and convince unsuspecting boys from the ages of 17, 18, 19, 20 that they want to teach them Forex and crypto business.
“They lure some from Kaduna, Akwa-Ibom, and Ibadan to that particular estate and beat the hell out of them, feeding them only when they feel like feeding them,” he said.
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