See the Face of Notorious Internet Fraudster Who Used Twitter to Scam a Nigerian of $5,000 (Photo)

Posted by Thandiubani on Mon 18th Jan, 2016 - tori.ng

A Nigerian scammer and internet fraudster who used twitter to scam, tarnish and blackmail people into giving him thousands of dollars has been finally arrested.

Elom Nzube the notorious internet fraudster

Police in Abuja have nabbed an internet scammer identified as Elom Nzube who hacked into the Twitter account of a Tanzanian, Dr. Reginald Remengi, in order to “just impersonate” him.

According to a Punch report, Nzube, 25, reportedly reached out to Mrs. Tinu Abiola, the Managing Director, HTM International Nigeria Ltd, a friend of Remengi threatening to tarnish and blackmail her image if she did not pay him $5,000 after hacking into her account.

He said, “I hacked into Dr Remengi’s Twitter account and I used it to chat with Abiola while posing as Remengi, but I didn’t extort any money from her. What happened was that somebody sent a link to me, which he used to hack my Twitter account. I suspected that Abiola must have sent the link to me because immediately I clicked on it, I couldn’t access my account again.

“So I hacked into Remengi’s account and pretended to be him while chatting with Abiola. I can no longer access my PayPal account, where I have $700 which I wanted to use to rent an apartment.”

Nzube, a barber, claimed that he generated the money in his PayPal account from marketing health products online. The Force Public Relations Officer, Olabisi Kolawole, said Abiola petitioned the Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, on December 1, 2015, after Nzube attempted to extort money from her.

She said, “On the strength of the petition, detectives assigned to carry out investigation into the case found out that the suspect fraudulently fabricated a story using his professional knowledge in computer applications to design a human skull, attached same to the photograph of the complainant and created a web page with Vanguard newspapers media logo, which he used to blackmail the petitioner internationally.”

According to her, the suspect confessed to have blackmailed several suspects locally and internationally “among who are Prof. Toyin Ajao, a lecturer at the University of Pretoria, South Africa; Senator Raji Rauf, and Sam Kurk of England.”

Kolawole advised Nigerians to be careful when on social media and avoid revealing too many details. Kolawole also asked internet users to always be careful with their social media passwords to avoid being scammed.