A school said to be specialised in the training of young Nigerians for Internet fraud called Yahoo Yahoo has been discovered in Ikot Ibiok, Akwa Ibom State.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) discovered the existence of the institution a few months after a similar one was discovered in Lagos.
According to the commission, some of the areas covered in the school are Love Scam, Online Trading Scam, Theft Identity.
The EFCC, Uyo Zonal Office, in a joint operation with some of the commission’s operatives from Abuja, in the early hours of Thursday, November 28th, stormed the building described as ‘YAHOO ACADEMY’, arrested many suspects, with some of the teaching and learning aids – mostly laptops – suggesting the nature of the business going on there.
Twenty-three suspects, including operators and trainees, were said to have been arrested at the academy located on Essien Essien Street, Ikot Ibiok village in Eket Local Government Area of the state.
