The Police arrested a 26 years old man who attempt blackmailing Abiola's wife of $5,000 last week in Anambra state.
Mr Caleb Nzube hacked the Twitter account of Mrs Abiola,downloaded her pictures and designed a web page showing the woman carrying a human skull.
He then threatened to expose the woman to the world if the woman does not pay $5,000,
But Mrs Abiola in turn contacted the Inspector General of Police Solomon Arase, who directed a Monitoring team Intelligence Response to track him down.
He was arrested when the operatives stormed his hideout in Obosi
It was gathered that Mrs Abiola was not the only victim as serving senator and two other persons were been harassed by the suspect.
Caleb Nzube agreed he is an Internet fraudster who specializes in dating but diverted to blackmailing according to Vanguard.
He said
“I started following Mrs Timu Alade Abiola on Twitter and I got her pictures. I felt she was a good catch and I decided to blackmail her. I used Photoshop to make it look like she was carrying a human skull. I designed a web page with a little gossip story on it that she was caught for ritual
I sent her the link and when she saw it I demanded she pays me $5000 or I will show it to the whole world. One of her friends came in and begged that I shouldn’t do it and that they were ready to pay me $ 2000. I rejected the money, insisting that I must collect the amount I demanded.
Later they discovered I was Igbo and they gave my number to an Igbo girl who started talking to me and I accepted their offer, what got me angry was that while we were still talking, they sent a fishing link that destroyed my website which I have been maintaining for more than four years. That website had paid me little money I have used in sustaining myself.
I told the Igbo girl about it and that if I don’t get the money before the end of the week I will show the web page to the whole world. She asked for my account, I gave it to her but before I knew what was happening, the police came and arrested me
I don’t understand why she has to bring in the police; I told the girl that what I needed was for her to tell her madam to just pay me for my website they destroyed. In fact I regret all this, if I had known it will be this messy I would have not ventured into this. What I do is only dating. I just wanted to try my luck on this one.” he lamented.”
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