An under-aged boy suspected to have been newly introduced into internet fraud was arrested on Thursday by the vigilantes at Zuba in Abuja, after reportedly defrauding a POS operator in the area.
The suspect, Benedict Agoro (15), was nabbed around Dan Kogo Motor Park at about 11 am, where he had asked a POS operator, Chioma Kalu, to transfer N40,000 to his associate.
After the transaction, the POS operator asked him for the money, only for the boy to tell her that his master would send the money to her.
Speaking to our reporter at the vigilante office, the POS operator disclosed that the boy gave her the phone contact of the said master, who confessed that he was the one that received the transferred money.
“I raised the alarm and the boy was arrested by the vigilantes, who took him to the office,’’ the victim narrated.
Operational commander of the vigilantes in Zuba command, Yahaya Madaki, said the boy told them during investigation that he was introduced into the scam by a friend, who he met recently in the social media.
He said the suspect’s brother, who went to the office to secure his bail, paid back the N40,000 to the POS operator before he was released.
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