$270 Fraud: Court Sentences ‘Yahoo Boy’ To Community Service

An internet fraudster, better known as “Yahoo Boy”, Abass Aminu Abdulkareem has been convicted and sentenced to community service for $270 Fraud in Abuja.

The “Yahoo Boy” was convicted by Justice O. I. Adelaja of the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Kubwa on Tuesday.

His conviction followed his arraignment by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on one count charge bordering on internet fraud.

The anti-graft agency disclosed this in a statement posted on its official X handle on Wednesday afternoon.

The charge read, “That you, Abass Aminu Abdulkareem sometime in 2023 at Abuja within the jurisdiction of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory cheated by personation when you represented yourself on a Facebook profile page as Jeremiah Lincoln, a citizen of the United States of America and under that name obtained the sum of Two Hundred and Seventy United States Dollars ($270) from Amanda, a cousin to Jeremiah Lincoln and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 321 of the Penal Code Law (Laws of the Federation, Abuja) 1990 and punishable under Section 324 of the same Law.”

The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge.

Upon his plea, Justice Adelaja convicted and sentenced Abdulkareem to community service to be supervised by the Nigerian Correctional Service’s Officers.

The convict is also to forfeit his iPhone 12 Pro and XR to the Federal Government.

Meanwhile, Kanyi Daily reported that operatives of the Port Harcourt Zonal Command of the EFCC have arrested a total of 38 suspected internet fraudsters, better known as “Yahoo Boys”.

The EFCC operatives also recovered eight exotic cars, iPhones, a laptop, and the sum of N253,700.00 cash from the suspects.