Man Who Specializes In Blackmailing Top Politicians, Socialites Arrested After Trying It With Abiola’s Wife
Yoruba women don’t smile, LOL. A
26-year-old man, Caleb Nzube , who
attempted to blackmail the wife of
late Chief MKO Abiola of $5,000, was
last week arrested in Anambra State.
Nzube allegedly hacked the Twitter
handle of Mrs Tinu Abiola,
downloaded her picture and
designed a web page showing the
woman carrying a human skull. He
then threatened to expose the web
page to the world if the woman does
not pay $5,000.
Traumatised Mrs Abiola, it was
learned, petitioned the Inspector
General, Solomon Arase, who
directed a combined team of the
Inspector General Monitoring Team
and the Intelligence Response Team
to track down the suspect. He was
arrested when the operatives
stormed his hideout in Obosi.
It was gathered that Mrs Abiola was
not the suspect’s only victim, as a
serving Senator and two others were
also being harassed by him on the
social media.
Speaking with Vanguard after his
arrest, Caleb Elom Nzube agreed that
he is an internet fraudster as he
specialised in online dating before
venturing into blackmailing thinking
it was more lucrative.
Disclosing he spent hours on the
social media searching for
prominent Nigerians, Nzube said his
targets are mainly rich politicians,
popular businessmen and socialite.
He said he goes after these set of
people because he thinks they are
usually sensitive to what is said
about them in the public.
On how he got into trouble 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. ý
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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