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Man exposes fake EFCC official who contacted him to ask for share of yahoo money

A young Nigerian man has exposed a fake operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, who tried to extort him under false pretense.

He received a call from a fraudster that posed as an EFCC official and asked him to share proceeds of alleged cyberfraud with them.

The fake official said he was calling from the EFCC office in Benin, Edo state, and their investigation led to them to him.

The scammer said they are aware that he has gotten a client and all they wanted was their share of the money so that they would leave him alone.

When the man asked how much he wants, the fake anti-graft operative said that it depends on the amount their purported suspect wants to collect.

The receiver of the call played along and said he was thinking of collecting N12 million, in response, the scammer said their share would be N500,000.

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In related news, a Nigerian model and beauty consultant, Ciata Jolie, has cried out after being scammed by a man she transacted business with out of trust.

The entrepreneur revealed in a video on her Instagram page that she was scammed of all her life savings in less than a month.

She said that she had saved for a very long time for several years and after she lost the money, she has experienced tough times this year.

Beauty specialist, Ciata Jolie breaks down in tears while narrating how man scammed her of her life savings

Ciata said that her dream was to have a landed property and in December 2022, she took money she saved to her hometown.

She said that she saw a piece of land in her state and approached the owner who revealed that he inherited the land from his father.

According to the makeup artiste, te guy gave her assurance that he is trust worthy and has undergone traditional rites to ensure he lives a honest life.

Ciata believed him because he was very convincing, so she gave him the first payment of N4 million, after which he signed the necessary documents.

Beauty specialist, Ciata Jolie breaks down in tears while narrating how man scammed her of her life savings

Unfortunately for her, when she started fencing the land in January 2023, her father joined her in working on the land.

She explained that before she started work on the land, she paid N400,000 out of which N350,000 was development fee.

The young lady said as she was preparing to leave the village, she got a phone call from someone who laid claim to the same land.

She was thrown off balance, and worse off the other man claiming ownership drew a skull like figure on the fence to ward off people.

Ciata said she later discovered that the land had been sold before and the person she paid N4million was notorious for running that kind of land sale scam which she was a victim of.

In sharing her woes, the lady advised others not to allow themselves be fooled by religion or any other beliefs.