Girls Scam ISIS On Social Media

Three Chechen girls are under investigation for fraud after they allegedly scammed ISIS members into giving them money on the pretense that they would use it to travel from their homeland to Syria. The ladies got away with $3,300 before being discovered, according to RT News.

The ISIS members allegedly reached out to the girls’ social media accounts, asking the girls to join the militant cause. The young women kept in contact with the ISIS members and even sent fake pictures to string them along.

After the ISIS members wired the money, the girls closed down their accounts, stopped all communication, and kept the windfall. The con artists had no intention of actually leaving the country, though one admitted that she used to consider joining.

“I don’t recall any precedent like this one in Chechnya, probably because nobody digs deep enough in that direction,” police officer Valery Zolotaryov told a local Chechen newspaper. “Anyhow, I don’t advise anyone to communicate with dangerous criminals, especially for grabbing quick money,” he added.

The girls’ stunt isn’t the first of its kind. RT News reported that sometimes men create fake accounts, pretending to be females, with the same ISIS-swindling intentions.

Headmaster Arrested for Impersonating EFCC

The desperation of Mohammed Adamu, an assistant headmaster at Madaki Primary School in Gombe State, to travel to Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj, has landed him in trouble as he has been arrested for allegedly parading himself as an operative of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), as well as presenting himself as police officer.

Adamu who also go by the name, Mohammed Bala, was said to have extorted money from the Executive Secretary of the Gombe State Muslim Pilgrim Welfare Board, Alhaji Usman Gurama, under the guise of securing Hajj slots for staff of the Gombe zone of the EFCC.

Reacting on the arrest, the Head, Media and Publicity of the anti-graft body, Wilson Uwujaren, said Adamu was nabbed on July 13, 2015.

In a statement Uwujaren released, he said:

“Investigations by the commission revealed that the suspect had written a letter to the executive secretary of the pilgrim’s board, requesting for money to give to staff of EFCC for the pilgrimage to Mecca. Upon his arrest by the EFCC, he confessed not being an employee of the commission.”

He added that Adamu told Gurama that he needed to get the money for the EFCC Head of Operations, Head of Monitoring and Investigation, OC Legal and Prosecution Unit and Head of Team A-D.

Uwujaren said after a thorough investigation, it was discovered that the perpetrator of the crime was a staff of the Gombe Local Government Education Authority.

A police identity card bearing his name and picture with the rank of a corporal, and a  temporary appointment offer letter from Gombe Local Government Education Authority, three different copies of Hajj seat receipts and a letter written by the suspect on a plain paper to the executive secretary, Gombe State Muslim Pilgrim Welfare Board, requesting for money for supposed staff of EFCC, were recovered from him.

Source: Pulse NG