Rapid Response Squad nabs Lagos serial scammer (Details, pics)

Some operatives of the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos state police command have arrested a suspected scammer.

The operatives arrested the suspect, Dare Yusuf, 31, after he tricked a road user into buying substances that would double any cash.Yusuf who live at 1, Abayomi Jones, Oke-Ilube, Ikotun, Lagos, had told the victim to apply the substance ‘adija’ to the money given.

Yusuf who operates alongside two others - still at large - specialise in defrauding unsuspecting Lagos residents of their money.

The trio - Seun, Ayo and Dare - the police said use different tactics to rip their victims of valuable and immediately leave the scene of the crime without a trace.

Confessing to the crime, Yusuf said, each member of the group play their roles while the proceeds of the acts are shared afterwards.

Yusuf said the catcher roams streets of Lagos for unsuspecting victims by approaching road users to inquest about a location he is going to.He described Ayo as the ‘catcher’, Seun as the ‘jejeti’ while he Dare is the ‘sitter’.

He said the catcher systematically tells the road user that he did not get the description of the place and it’s important for him to get to the place because he is going there to sell one ‘adija’ worth between N800,000 to N1 million.

He added that after Ayo must have initiated a conversation with the victim and lured them into showing him the location he asked for, ‘jejeti’ comes into their discussion showing more knowledge of directing the catcher to where he claims to be going.

To this the Cather then request for the would-be victim to accompany him to the point of sale of the ‘Adija’ and promises to give him and the ‘Jejeti’ a sum N200,000 each for helping him to the location.

He said jejeti also charges for such assistance by asking the catcher and the victim to settle him.

Yusuf noted that Jejeti then takes both the stranger and the catcher to a customized office in Idi-Araba where the other team player who is the ‘sitter’ has been planted to complement the fraudulent efforts of his teammates.

There, the ‘sitter’ collects the adija from Yusuf and tells him he will buy it for N900,000 and that the adija will help produce about N2m if he can get some chemical to add to it.

They further convince the stranger to buy into the idea and join them in the proceeds from the sale of the Adija.

They would then ask the victim to get some money after the scammers have tried to wash some money in a bucket of water after pouring the adija liquid and brought out a piece of N1,000 note from it.

Yusuf told the police that one of their victims who they accosted at Ikate Surulere in Isolo area of Lagos sometime in August 2017 and was tricked into money doubling, over which they collected N46,000, his two phones, one iPhone 6 and Techno W6 to be converted to cash for the purpose of making more money.

He also confessed to the police that the group has been surviving on the business for years.

Confirming the arrest, the Lagos state ASP Olarinde Famous Cole, advise members of the public to be more vigilant and report any suspicious act to the police.

The police also said that the suspect has been transferred to the Police State CID for further investigations.