A 28-year-old medical doctor turned hacker, Michael Thompson Williams, who is adept in online tools and its applications to perpetrate fake business transactions online and dupe unsuspecting persons, has been arrested and paraded by Lagos State police command.
Through false alert and credit card scam, he was able to acquire a property in Canada, he further said that he could purchase various goods worth up to the tune of N40 million with credit card scam and false alert.
Williams met his waterloo on March 23, 2018 when a complaint was lodged to the police by a car shop owner: Mr Abidogun Adewale, that a syndicate bought exotic cars worth N28 million, paid into his bank account but on visiting his banker, he discovered he had actually received a false bank alert indicating payment for a Porsche car he sold to the suspect.
hile parading Williams yesterday at the police command headquarters, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police,
Mr. Imohimi Edgal, told newsmen that the suspect during his dialogue with him admitted commission of the crime.
He said: “The suspect is member of a syndicate that goes to car shops, buys a car, configures a computer program that would send a fake payment alert to the seller and by so doing, fraudulently obtain the car.”
Edgal said the suspect thereafter requested for the seller’s bank account number and made it look like he had paid him via the fake alert to his phone using HTTP tunnel.com.
“Thereafter, the suspect drove the car away, unknown to the seller that he had been scammed.
A police manhunt was launched on the fleeing suspect by the command, dispatching detectives of the FSARS, led by CSP Sanusi Mohammed. This led to the arrest of the suspect in Lekki, Lagos.
“Upon his arrest, he led detectives to Asaba, Delta State, where the stolen Porsche car was recovered.
He also led detectives to Owerri, Imo State where two Camry cars he stole in a similar fashion were recovered.”
Williams in enlightening newsmen on the modus operandi of his illicit business, showed that the suspect has a good mastery of cyber space and thus creates a credit card through ‘cyber ghost 12’, he said.
