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More Trouble For Hushpuppi As New Evidence Is Submitted Against Him In California

Thompson Nsisongabasi

Sep 17, 2020

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1. Dubai launched a special operation code-named 'Operation Fox Hunt to solve Hushpuppi's case.

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2. It took Dubai police less than four months to crack the case. In the end, 12 gang members of Hushpuppi's were also arrested. Among them was Olalekan Ponle, aka Woodberry.

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3. Dubai police describe Hushpuppi as "an international online scammer known as Ramon Olorunwa Abbas but who goes by Hushpuppi on social media platforms." Hushpuppi was actually born Ramoni Igbalode.

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4. To arrest Hushpuppi and his gang, six raids were carried out simultaneously as the suspects slept in their Dubai residences.

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5. After months of painstaking investigation and hours of monitoring the gang's social media accounts, a team of highly-trained Dubai police officers were able to confirm the gang's whereabouts and fraudulent activities.

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6. Hushpuppi was arrested on multiple fraud charges for crimes committed in different parts of the world.

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7. Dubai police say he often boasted about his wealth and expensive possessions on social media; claiming he was a successful businessman.

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8. Dubai police tracked Hushpuppi's every move and took note of all his social media activities.

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9. Hushpuppi and his gang reportedly created fake pages for existing websites in order to redirect victims' payments to their own accounts.

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10. He and his gang hacked corporate emails and sent fake messages to clients in order to redirect financial transfers and people's bank details to their own accounts.

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11. He and his gang committed fraud amounting to 1.6 billion dirham (N168bn).

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12. Police seized items worth more than 150 million Dirhams from the gang after taking possession of 21 personal computers, 47 smartphones, 15 flash drives and 5 hard disks.

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13. 1, 926, 400 victims were allegedly scammed by Hushpuppi and his gang.

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14. 13 luxury cars worth 25 million Dirhams were bought by Hushpuppi and his gang with the money stolen from people who have been scammed, according to the police.

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— Thompson Nsisongabasi

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