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The judge also sentenced Amadi to one year imprisonment on each of the two counts with an option of a fine of N200,000, adding that the sentence would run concurrently.

Justice Mohammed ordered that the Samsung Galaxy S8+ recovered from him be forfeited to the Federal Government. Uwuoma’s charge read, “That you, Gerald Uwuoma, aka Charlie Clifford Jimmy, sometime in 2020 within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, did fraudulently impersonate one Charlie Clifford Jimmy, a computer engineer attached to the United States of America Army with intent to gain advantage for yourself and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 22 of the Cybercrime Act, 2015, and punishable under Section 22 of the same Act.

One of Amadi’s charges read, “That you, Promise Amadi , on or about March 2020 to February 2021 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, did fraudulently impersonate one Sebastian Ubierna with the intent to gain advantage for yourself and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 22 of the Cybercrimes Act, 2015, and punishable under Section 22 of the same Act.”All rights reserved.

 

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Every day I pray this yahoo things should go... then will now understand better , internet scam is bad but that is only thing that has reduced the crime rate we ought to be battle on the dailies. All cultist guys in my hood are now big boys , if this boys should drop Ge. Ah!!

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