The Nigeria Police Force has unveiled a Cybercrime Reporting Web Portal with the link https://incb.police.gov.ng/ .
This was announced, Thursday, by the Force Public Relations Officer, Mmr. Frank Mba, a Deputy Commissioner of Police.
In a release, Mba said the establishmnet of the portal is to ease crime reporting by members of the public, and enable prompt investigation, arrest and effective prosecution of perpetrators of cybercrime and other related offences.
The development came even as the force confirmed the arrest of three cyber crime suspects who were nabbed following Intelligence report received from INTERPOL Cybercrime Directorate in Singapore on global attacks by Nigerian cyber gangs. The gangs, the intel said, engage in mass email phishing campaigns and distribution of malwares aimed at stealing authentication data from browsers and email headers.
The three suspects are: Onwuka Emmanuel Chidiebere, a.k.a Ceeceeboss TMT, 32, male currently residing at Lekki, Lagos State, and a native of Aro-Ikpa in Abia State; Ikechukwu Ohanedozie, a.k.a Dozzy, 34, male; and Onuegwu Ifeanyi, a.k.a SSGToolz, 35, male of Prof’s Avenue, Umudagu, Mbieri, Mba-itolu LGA, Imo State.
They were arrested by the Nigeria Police Cybercrime Unit, INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB), Abuja.
According to Mba, Onuegwu Ifeanyi, a.k.a SSGToolz, specializes in creating, designing, selling of phishing links and hosting malwares on website used by the gang for phishing and hacking purposes. “He collects charges running into several millions of naira from other fraudsters he mentors and improves their phishing capabilities,” said Mba in the release.
The second suspect, Onwuka Emmanuel Chidiebere, a.k.a Ceeceeboss TMT, a graduate of Business Administration from Imo State University, specialises in business email compromise and hacking.
According to Mba, “A comprehensive forensic analysis reveals that he had in his laptop-computer over 50,000 email accounts and websites including passwords of various individuals and corporate entities across the world.
“He recruited the third suspect, Ikechukwu Ohanedozie, a.k.a Dozzy, a medical student of Imo State University, into the gang. Ikechukwu Ohanedozie sorts and profiles e-mail accounts to determine financial strengths of prospective victims and passes on information obtained therefrom to Onwuka Emmanuel Chidiebere.
“All the suspects will be charged to court on conclusion of investigation and prosecuted in line with the Cybercrime Prevention/Prohibition Act, 2015.”
Mba elucidates further on the new cyber crime reporting portal just launched by the force.
He said: “The portal (with the link: https://incb.police.gov.ng/) caters for complaints pertaining to cybercrimes. With this, victims/complainants can now report cases of cybercrime online, at any time and from any part of the world. The cases are promptly attended to by the Cybercrime Unit of the Force domiciled with the INTERPOL National Central Bureau (NCB), Force Headquarters, Abuja, and the newly created Cybercrime Unit at the INTERPOL Annex, Alagbon Close, Ikoyi, Lagos.
“The new portal will provide updates on achievements being recorded by the Nigeria Police and will, among other things, avail the citizens knowledge of basic cyber-related issues such as emerging cybercrime trends, the modus operandi of the cyber crooks and offer tips on how citizens could make themselves less vulnerable within the cyberspace.
“The Force urges potential users of the portal to ensure that only correct and accurate information, devoid of deliberate falsehood, misrepresentation and misinformation, are provided when filing their complaints.”
In the meantime, the Inspector General of Police,Mr. Mohammed Adamu, has reaffirmed the commitment of the Nigeria Police Force in protecting the cyber space and bringing all cyber criminals to book. He reassured confidentiality of all reports and complaints made to the Police through the cyber portal.
