Two suspected imposters have been arrested by operatives of the Rivers State Police Command for impersonating the state Commissioner of Police, Okon Effiong.
This was made known by Command’s Public Relations Officer, Grace Iringe-Koko, in a statement she issued in Port Harcourt, the state capital on Monday.
The spokesperson said that the suspects, Amadi Hemenachi, 28 and Goodluck Nnochiri, 27, defrauded unsuspecting members of the public, especially jobseekers, with the fake account.
The suspects were said to have uploaded the photograph of the police boss and created a fake Facebook account with hisimage with which they swindled people.
She noted that the suspects hail from Akukabi and Obibi villages respectively in Etche LGA of the state.
The statement read, “Operatives of the Nigeria Police Force, Rivers State Command have tracked and arrested two suspects namely; Amadi Hemenachi, 28 and Goodluck Nnochiri, 27.
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“They are involved in a case of conspiracy, impersonation, forgery, obtaining money by pretence and unlawful possession of multiple ATM cards.
“The suspects are alleged to have hacked into the Google network and uploaded the photograph of the Rivers State Commissioner of Police, Okon Effiong, and used the same to create a fake Facebook account.
“Investigation revealed that they impersonated the CP and used the fake Facebook account to obtain money from several unsuspecting citizens, mostly job and admission seekers.”
She said, while confessing to the crime, the suspects have revealed that they usually hack into different websites, print out names of people, their phone numbers and addresses, and thereafter call to defraud them.
The statement added, “After investigation, they will be charged in court.
“The Rivers State Commissioner of Police advises members of the public to be mindful of the personal confidential details they display on social media handles, and promptly report cases of hacked social media accounts.”