Nigeria, May 5 -- The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said on Wednesday that its operatives have arrested Udochukwu Ugochukwu Simeon for allegedly cloning its (EFCC's) e-mail address in an effort to defraud unsuspecting victims.

A statement by the commission's spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, alleged that the 26-year-old suspect created an Outlook email account of the commission, "efccnigeria.org.ng@outlook.com", and a webmail, info@efcc-nigeria.org.ng, which he uses to impersonate the EFCC.

"Investigation by the Cybercrimes Unit at the Commission's headquarters, Abuja, indicates that the suspect also uses the two fake e-mail accounts to send messages to his victims, while posing as an officer of the commission trying to h...