A Disc Jockey (DJ) identified as Blessed Michael, is to reportedly spend six (6) months in prison for cloning the Facebook accounts of former chief of army staff, Lt.Gen. Tukur Buratai (retd), and Mariya Dangote, daughter of Nigerian industrialist and billionaire, Aliko Dangote.
The suspect had used the false identities to solicit money from unsuspecting victims under various guise.
The convict who was prosecuted before Justice Mohammed Tukur of the Kaduna State High Court, Kaduna, on a one-count of amended charge bordering on cheating by impersonation, devised a cloned Facebook account of the retired army chief in soliciting from persons seeking enlistment into the Nigerian Army.
In the same vein, he left a telephone number in the cloned Facebook account of Dangote’s daughter which he invited prospective victims to claim some amount of money.
Victims of the scam had alerted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), leading to the arrest of the fraudster by operatives of the Kaduna Zonal Office of the EFCC.
