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LEARN FROM THE BEST!!! Bank Statement Forensic Audit Training

Key Bank Statement fraud areas: Banks most of the time do not adhere to CBN guide to bank charges. Bank charge in excess of agreed interest on loans. Banks do not pay agreed percentage on interest on daily balance. Banks charge fees that are not prescribed by CBN guide to bank charges. Banks prepare loan

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Alleged N192m Fraud: Lawyers Docked, Remanded in Prison

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Lagos Zonal office, on Friday, May 17, 2019, arraigned two legal practitioners, Tom Awhana and Paul Okoro, before Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos on a 19-count charge bordering on conspiracy to steal and stealing to the tune of N192,436,342.30 (One Hundred

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Air India falls victim to cyber fraud, sends funds to Nigeria instead of US firm

The incident is learnt to have taken place in June, 2017 but the airline has failed to get the amount retrieved from the Nigerian bank account. Public sector Air India’s New York office transferred $300,000 to a bank account in Nigeria instead of remitting the sum to a US-based firm Pratt & Whitney for supplying

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Guilty of £10m internet fraud, six Nigerians to spend 43 years in UK prisonGuilty of £10m internet fraud, six Nigerians to spend 43 years in UK prison

The Blackfriars Crown Court in the United Kingdom has sentenced six Nigerians and five other foreigners to more than 43 years imprisonment for defrauding many businesses and individuals of millions of dollars. The Nigerians include three brothers, two women who are wives to two of the brothers, and the sixth person who is their associate.

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U.S. District Judge sentenced a Nigerian man identified as Hammed Akinola and his American accomplice, James Campbell, to many years in prison.

A Nigerian internet fraudster popularly known as Yahoo Boy, Hammed Akinola has bagged 180 months (15 years) imprisonment for a $10million fraud. His sentence was ordered by a Federal High Court in Houston, Texas, in the United States of America (USA) . Akinola’s accomplice American accomplice was not spared also, U.S. District Judge David Hittner

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EFCC alerts on new tricks by car thieves

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has urged the general public to be vigilant in order not to fall victim to new tricks deployed by car thieves to dispossess unsuspecting Nigerians of their vehicles. The alert was borne out of the shocking discoveries made during investigations into the allegations of crime leveled against Babatunde

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NHS nurse, 38, who built up a shoe collection ‘to rival Imelda Marcos’ on the proceeds of banking swindles and romance scams and her friend were allowed to stay at home with their children instead of attending their £10m fraud trial

Grace Chukwu, 38, and Queen Chukwuka, 32, guilty of having criminal property They were arrested and tried with eight other members of fraudster gang Group used Internet scams sent to people’s emails to steal bank details  They were found with thousands in account and spent money on designer shoes  By Lara Keay For Mailonline Published: 16:06

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