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EFCC Arraigns Internet Fraudster in Ilorin

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Office on March 7, 2019 arraigned a suspected yahoo boy, Muhammad Umar Faruk, before Justice Babagana Ashigar of a Federal High Court, sitting in Ilorin on six-count charge bordering on Advanced Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related Offences Act and obtaining under false pretence. One of the counts reads: "That you, Muhammad Umar Faruk (alias Morgan Chase), sometime in February 2019, at Ilorin, within the judicial division of the Federal High Court, with the intent of defraud, had in your possession a document containing false preten…