Police from the Assistant Inspector General (AIG) Zone 2 in Onikan, Lagos, have nabbed three suspects accused of faking international bank cheques and pretending to be foreign celebrities. The trio Innocent Odumosor (27), Ajie Samuel Chukwudi (31), and Godwin Divine (19) were caught at their homes in Lagos by the zonal Anti-Corruption Unit after a tip-off about their shady dealings.
Odumosor, said to be the group’s leader, lived in a fancy four-bedroom apartment in Ocean Freeze Estate, Ologoro, Ikate, while his right-hand man, Ajie, stayed at Star Times Estate, Ago Palace Way, Okota. The police say these guys worked with a crew overseas. Sources claim Odumosor and Ajie admitted to scamming people out of ₦400 million over the past four years.
During questioning, the suspects spilled the beans on how they pulled it off. They bought tools from a website called Xeet.com to mess with foreign bank software and steal sensitive info. Odumosor, a university grad, said he got into internet fraud in 2021, two years after finishing school, learning tricks from sites like Xeet.PW and Monove.com. He explained, “We use software to hack into foreign banks, clone cashier cheques, and team up with our overseas crew to find accounts to cash them. Victims cash the fake cheques and send money to accounts we set up, not knowing what’s up.”
He added, “We chat with victims for a while before hitting them. I buy tools from sites like Olux.TO, Monove.com, and Cheap.com—costing between $10 and $100—to load money into foreign accounts, mostly in the U.S. We split the profits 50/50.” Talking about their latest score, Odumosor said, “Ajie and I cashed $350,000 in cheques from Bank of America for someone named Babara Franks. My cut was $150,000, which came to ₦230 million in my Access Bank account. I spent ₦120 million on a Mercedes GLE and used the rest for myself, my family, and my music hustle. I work off my iPhone 16 Pro Max and laptop, and I pay ₦10 million for my flat in Ikate.”
Police digs showed that after their last payout on March 28, 2024, Odumosor splashed ₦250 million on a Mercedes 223 GLE, while Ajie grabbed a Mercedes GLE 221 for ₦150 million. Godwin’s share is still sitting in his Nigerian bank account. Ajie, who goes by “Pappy” and studied Mechanical Engineering, said he made $50,000 as the middleman in the deals.
Detectives are now working with Interpol to catch the overseas crew and have seized the suspects’ international passports. They’re also checking banks tied to the scam to see if anyone inside helped out. When asked, AIG Zone 2, Adegoke Fayoade, confirmed the arrests and said the investigation is still rolling.
