By Desire Emmanuel
An internet fraudster, known in local parlance as Yahoo Boy, who hacked into someone’s bank account in Florida, the United States, withdrew the sum of $21,000 from it has been arrested by men of the Delta State Police Command while trying to buy a car with the money.
The Public Relations Officer of the command, Bright Edafe, disclosed this during the interrogation of the Yahoo Boy, who gave his name simply as Ovodke, saying he was arrested after a dealer he wanted to buy a Lexus RX350 (2015 model) from became suspicious when he did not see money in his domiciliary account.
According to the internet fraudster, he successfully hacked into the person’s bank account at a bank in Florida, called the car dealer based in Uvwie Local Government Area of the state, informing him that he wanted to buy the car and asking him to send his domiciliary account details because he wanted to make payment in dollars.
The man was said to have sent his account details and after some time, Ovodke generated transfer receipt, sent it to the dealer, saying he had paid for the car.
The dealer was said to have gone to his bank and when he demanded for his dollars account balance, there was no money transferred by the fraudster.
He decided to play along, invited the police and asked Ovodke to come and pick his car. When he arrived to go home with the car, he was surrounded by the police and arrested.
During his interrogation, Ovodke said though he had been hacking into people’s Facebook account for about six months, this was the first time he would hack into a foreign bank account.
He said he saw the account on Gmail, logged into it and succeeded in getting the password, adding that he withdrew the entire $21,000 he saw in the account.
“I was hacking a Facebook account when I saw the password and username to the account. I went online to search for the name of the bank and I used the username and password to access the account and I saw $21,000,” he told Edafe.
He is currently giving more useful information to the men of the command and he is expected to be charged to court at the conclusion of the investigation.
