Innocent Uche Clinton and Emmanuel Okanni have both been sentenced to jail over fake BVN massages to defraud unsuspecting persons.
The EFCC secured the conviction and sentences of the duo before Justice Sa’ad Muhammad of the Gombe State High Court on two count charge bordering on conspiracy and theft.
The convicts who were sentenced to six months imprisonment, hails from Orlu Ngaba Local Government Area of Imo State.
They specialize in scamming unsuspecting members of the public by sending text messages claiming to be from customer care of different Banks and telling the recipients that their transaction accounts were closed due to BVN issues and asked that they disclose their BVN in order to rectify the problem, thereby defrauding them.
