Dare Yusuf after he was caught by the police
The operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command have busted a group of money scammers.The suspect, Dare Yusuf, 31-year-old who resides at 1, Abayomi
Jones, Oke-Ilube Ikotun Lagos, was arrested after tricking a road user
into buying a substance claimed to double any cash by applying one
‘Adija’ to the money given.
The suspect in connivance with two other suspects (still at large)
who specialize in defrauding innocent Lagosians of their hard earned
money tricked a road user who does not want his name on print around
Ilasa in Isolo area of Lagos State.
The trio namely Seun, Ayo and Dare are suspected serial scammers
who dupe unsuspecting members of the public using different tricks to
rip them off their valuables and immediately desert the scene without a
trace.
Dare, while speaking with RRS Decoy team, confessed the role each
member of the group plays, their intrigues and how they share the loot
afterwards. Ayo is the ‘Catcher’, Seun is the ‘Jejeti’ while he Dare is
the ‘Sitter’.
He disclosed that, the Catcher is the one who roams streets in
Lagos for the victim. The Catcher approaches road users to inquest about
a location he is going to and systematically tells the road user he
didn’t get the description of the place and it’s important for him to
get to the place because he is going there to sell one ‘Adija’ worth
between N800,000 to N1m.”
After the catcher has chatted-up the would-be victim and has
disclosed his purpose to sell the 'Adija', he asks to be directed to the
location. This is the point the ‘Jejeti’ comes into their discussion
showing more knowledge of directing the Catcher to where he claims to be
going, but not for free as he will further tell the Catcher to settle
him and the stranger.
The Catcher then requests for the would-be victim to accompany him
to the point of sale of the ‘Adija’ and promises to give him and the
‘Jejeti’ a sum N200,000 each for helping him to the location.
Unfortunately for the stranger, he is the victim here. Both the
Catcher and the Jejeti are working together to defraud whoever falls
into their trap. The Jejeti then takes both the stranger and the catcher
to a customized office in Idi-Araba where the other team player who is
the ‘Sitter’ has been planted to complement the fraudulent efforts of
his teammates.
Dare who is the ‘Sitter’ then collects the Adija from Ayo who has
been playing the role of the Catcher and tells him he will buy it for
N900,000 and that the Adija will help produce about N2m if he can get
some chemical to add to it.
Meanwhile, the stranger is also there watching the drama as the
trio try to convince him into buying into the idea of making fast money.
They tell the would-be victim to get some money after the scammers have
tried to wash some money in a bucket of water after pouring the Adija
liquid and brought out a piece of N1,000 note from it.
There was the case of a victim who was cornered at Ikate Surulere
in Isolo area of Lagos sometime in August 2017 and was tricked into
money doubling, over which they collected N46,000, his two phones, one
iPhone 6 and Techno W6 to be converted to cash for the purpose of making
more money.
When asked how many victims the group trick every day and when they
have been into the shady act, Dare said; he has been into the business
for years just to survive with his family and that the least they do per
day is one victim to avoid police arrest and at the same time change
location for the next day.
Recovered from the suspect is the Techno W6 while investigations
are still on to recover the iPhone 6 which he confessed to have been
sold to get cash.
The suspect has been transferred to the Police State CID for further investigations.
Commenting on the development, the Lagos State Police Public
Relations Officer, ASP Olarinde Famous Cole, advise members of the
public to be more vigilant and report any suspicious act to the police.
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