Graduates Arrested For Website Fraud

The Police Special Fraud Unit, PSFU, has smashed a syndicate which specialise in designing multinational organisations’ websites to defraud unsuspecting members of the public, particularly applicants, six members were arrested.

Among the suspects are a first class honours graduate and two final year students of the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA.

The suspects’ modus oparadi, according to the unit, include using logos of multinational companies to place online advertisements for jobs and scholarships and demanding application fee from interested individuals.

Luck ran out for the suspects after the unit received a petition from the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, last August, that a website designed as ‘OFID Scholarship Website’ (OPEC Fund for International Development for World Student Aid   Scholarship) with OFID name and logo is being used to defraud unsuspecting Nigerian applicants.