Operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of Lagos State
Police Command have arrested a 35-year-old man, Michael Atanda, who blackmails
his internet lovers by threatening to display their nude pictures on social
media, especially Facebook, if they refused to pay his monetary demands.
It was gathered that he was apprehended while blackmailing
four ladies on the social media, who failed to pay the money he demanded. The
suspect, a Computer Science National Diploma holder of a popular computer
school based in Ikeja, was said to have confessed to the crime.
Atanda, who was also said to be an ex-convict and a father
of three, was caught in the process of collecting N121,000 from the four girlfriends
he was blackmailing. He wanted the ladies to pay more or face the prospect of
their nude pictures exposed on social media.
In his profile on Facebook, he is Segun Bayo, a graduate of
Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, and goes about adding several ladies as
friends.
According to him, after two weeks, he would start chatting
with them, saying “the profile picture on my Facebook account is that of a guy
based in London. As part of my introduction to ladies, I tell them that I am a
construction engineer and that my parents and I are living Europe.
"After sometime, I would lure them into sexual conversations
during which I persuade them to send their nude pictures to me. They would send
and I would send mine to them too. Before that I would pretend that I was seeking a serious
relationship with them, and that very soon I would be coming to Abuja on a
business trip, during which I would see them.
"I would also feign seriousness by calling them with the aid
of a computer software that transforms my Nigerian line into an international
line.
"Meanwhile, I would warn them that I was calling through a
public phone booth. As soon as they have sent their nude pictures, I would come
up with all manners of stories, then begin to extort and blackmail them.
"Through these means, I have collected over N121,000 from my
latest victims. I was jailed last years for fraudulently collecting N700,000
from a lady I met through a dating site. I was eventually bailed, but the case
is still pending in court. I have collected only 10,000 from Funmilola; Motunrayo,
N6,000; Joy, N5,000 and Lizzy, N100,000."
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