A 23-year-old graduate of College of Education, Ilaro, Ogun State, who
has been on wanted list of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps
(NSCDC), for notoriety on hacking into websites of government agencies
and sale of fake recruitment forms has been arrested.
The
suspect, who simply gave his name as Adeniji Lukman, from Osun State,
was paraded in Abuja, on Monday, before newsmen by the
Commandant-General of NSCDC, Dr Ade Abolurin.
Lukman
confessed to have committed the cyber crime of hacking into websites of
government agencies, including security agencies and selling of fake
recruitment forms to unsuspecting job seekers.
He told newsmen that he was an expert in website design and had been using that advantage to defraud many Nigerians.
Answering
the question on why he chose cyber crime with his talent, the suspect
said, “it is ignorance. I have a talent and I know how to design
website.”
Dr Abolurin disclosed that the suspect had been
notorious for hacking into websites of government agencies, including
the NSCDC, States Security Service (SSS), Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB), National Examination Council (NECO) and
Nigeria Customs Service.
The suspect was also alleged to have
hacked into the website of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) and was
already having a rip-off from the current recruitment exercise being
conducted by into NIS.
He was also alleged to have hacked into
the website of JAMB and produce questions and answers likely to feature
in the examinations and sold them to the public before the Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) was held.
“The suspect
before us is an expert in website design. He can hack into any system,
most especially government agencies’ system.He develops portals through
which he used to put some adverts, advertising for recruitment for all
these agencies.
“He just graduated from College of Education,
Ilaro, in March and he went to computer training centre where he learnt
some of these things.
“The crux of the matter is that when he
hacked into our system, there were so much outcries in the country. This
got to my knowledge late last year, and so we started trailing the
suspect.
“We thank God, on September 26, we got him. He is 23 years. He was arrested in Osun State,” he said.
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