{"id":3338,"date":"2024-02-24T15:25:09","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T15:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3338"},"modified":"2024-02-24T15:25:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T15:25:11","slug":"50-nigerian-students-seized-for-alleged-internet-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3338","title":{"rendered":"50 Nigerian Students Seized For Alleged Internet Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nigerian authorities have arrested 50 suspected internet fraudsters, nearly all of them students of Kwara State University in the west.<br><br>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said in a statement on Thursday that the 48 students and two others were arrested in their various hideouts following days of surveillance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-2f40a64ac1046e5e42e2ea7db0ee2802 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lm5Lo2c07kE?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><br>It said it recovered \u201cnine exotic cars, 24 laptops and different brands of phones\u201d from the suspects, who are said to have been living a lavish lifestyle.<br><br>The agency is also quoted by local media as saying that they \u201cswung into action to free the state of corruption and other nefarious activities of \u2018yahoo-yahoo boys&#8217;\u201d, referring to the name given to online fraudsters.<br><br>The agency has posted on social media pictures of the suspects as well as the impounded items.<br><br>The suspects will soon be arraigned in court upon conclusion of investigations, the EFCC said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian authorities have arrested 50 suspected internet fraudsters, nearly all of them students of Kwara State University in the west. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said in a statement on Thursday that the 48 students and two others were arrested in their various hideouts following days of surveillance. It said it recovered \u201cnine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1106],"class_list":["post-3338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-50-nigerian-students-seized-for-alleged-internet-fraud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3340,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3338\/revisions\/3340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}