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Internet Fraud: EFCC returns $4,040 to Brazilian victim
The receipt of the sum of $4,040 which was recovered by the Port Harcourt Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has been acknowledged by a Brazilian victim of internet fraud identified as Debora Moreira.
Newsmen learnt that the internet victim identified as Moreira lost the money to a convicted fraudster identified as Emmanuel Tope in a romance scam.
It was further learnt that EFCC commenced an investigation of the scam in March 2019 and successfully recovered the money, prosecuted and got the fraudster convicted.
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According to a statement released by the anti-graft agency, the proceeds of crime were remitted into the victim’s account with Bank Itau S/A, Rua Americo Brasiliense, through the Central Bank of Nigeria.
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