A Kaduna High Court judge, Justice Dairus Khobo, sentenced a 19-year-old teenager, Peterson Enoch, to 12 months imprisonment on Thursday, over cyber crime offences.
The convict who was a resident of Millennium City, Kaduna, was dragged before the court by the state Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Khobo in his judgment found the defendant guilty of the charge levelled against him.
The judge sentenced the 19-year-old to 12 months in a correctional centre, with an option of a fine of N100,000.
He also ordered the forfeiture of the iPhone 12 and Infinix S5 phone recovered from the convict at the time of the arrest to the Federal Government, and to restitute $1,000 to his victim, Kingsley Matthew.
Earlier, the EFCC Counsel, P. C. Onyeneho, said that Enoch was one of the suspects arrested at Malali in Kaduna, on August 25, following actionable intelligence about the activities of persons suspected to be fraudsters.
“Upon arrest, one iPhone 12 and Infinix S5 phone were recovered from Enoch and when the phone was analysed, several fraudulent documents were printed from his emails.
“Checks on his profile revealed that Enoch had impersonated one Sandra James and swindled the complainant of $1,000 using fictitious emails,” the prosecutor added.
The 19-year-old convict had pleaded guilty to the charge.
Source: NAN
