A Malaysian court has ordered the detention of five Nigerian students in Malysia for their alleged
involvement in a N125.2m (RM2.4 million) internet fraud in Selangor & Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
According to local media reports, the 5 Nigerian students who are between the ages of 20 and 30 are
undergraduates pursuing a degree in Information Technology in a leading University Kuala Lumpur. They
were arrested on June 30, 2015.
A Malaysian police chief ACP Azmi Adam while speaking on their arrest said two women have been
arrested for providing their bank accounts for the syndicates to use in doing their illicit business. He stated
that five laptops, 20 hand phones, ATM cards, SIM cards and documents believed to have been used to
con their victims were seized from the men.
The men were arrested after one of their victims, a 62-year-old businessman alerted the police after
receiving a suspicious email in March informing him that he was among 50 recipients selected to receive
RM15.9 million from the government of the United States.
"The e-mail requested the victim to follow certain procedures to ensure he did not miss the
opportunity. Convinced by the contents of the e-mail, the victim carried out 51 transactions involving
money, to accounts numbers given by the syndicate before realising it was a scam. He later lodged a
police report,” the police chief said.
