Court Remands Alleged WhatsApp Hacker Over N700,000 Fraud
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the remand of an alleged WhatsApp hacker, Stephen Andrew Ojo, at the Ikoyi centre of the Nigerian Correctional Services.
Justice Akintayo Aluko remanded the defendant following his arraignment before the court by the officers of the Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, Lagos.
Ojo was arraigned on four counts which bordered on conspiracy, identity theft, and obtaining by false pretence.
The police prosecutor, Zebedee Arekhandia, told the court on Wednesday when the defendant was arraigned that the defendant and others now at large, on September 12, 2023, at Ajao Estate, Lagos, conspired among themselves and engaged in identity theft, by hacking the WhatsApp of one Mrs. Laraba Shuaibu, and impersonated her.
Arekhandia also told the court that the alleged WhatsApp hacker and others now at large used the hacked WhatsApp platform to fraudulently obtain the sum of N700, 000, from one Mrs. Osasu Tina Eriamiatoe.
