A lady who has been posing as music star, Wizkid, on the social media, especially Facebook, has been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command.
But this was not before she had fleeced her victims of not less than N18.3 million.
According to the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, the lady was at the game for so long before she was caught.
This was even as Owoseni said 10 people had been arrested for bank frauds in different parts of the State.
Those duped by the lady. whose name was not revealed included students of the University of Lagos.
Also duped by the lady of Dollars were two people living abroad.
She fleeced them of over $53,000, which in Naira value is about N18.3 million.
One of the victims was defrauded $49,000, while she milked the second victim $14,000.
According to Owoseni, the suspect was arrested after Wizkid reported the case to the police command, complaining that someone was impersonating and collecting money for shows.
The suspect opened a Facebook account in Wizkid’s name and displayed the star’s picture.
She started chatting with friends on Facebook, pretending to be Whizkid.
When people started accusing Wizkid of collecting money for shows and not turning up to fulfill his part of the bargain, the music star reported the matter.
Owoseni said that the suspect was arrested through investigation.
He warned members of the public to be alert to the activities of fraudsters.
He said: “A lady was arrested for defrauding people on Facebook. She was posing as Wizkid. She was arrested yesterday. The lady duped two people. The two victims are outside Nigeria. Members of the public should be very careful on sending money to people they met online. The lady collected money from people in USA and they thought they were paying money to Wizkid to come and perform. They didn’t know they were dealing with fraudsters. Nigerians should warn friends and relatives overseas to be careful in sending money to anyone, especially someone they didn’t know or hadn’t seen.”
