Abuja — A former student of the Igbinedion University, Okada, Edo state, Okoro Osagie Victor, alias Jerry Finger, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC , for allegedly defrauding foreigners to the tune of $96, 607 through the internet.

This came as the Chairman of the EFCC, Mrs. Farida Waziri, while receiving members of the National Youth Council of Nigeria in her office,weekend ,charged Nigerian youths to take up the gauntlet in the fight against corruption in the country .

In a release signed by the EFCC's spokesman, Mr. Femi Babafemi, the 23 -year old former Chemical Engineering student who dropped out of the university in 2004 due to what he called 'family issues', was picked up by operatives of the Commission in Benin city following a petition by a regional compliance officer with Money gram International, who suspected that the large number of foreign ladies, mostly Americans and Germans, who have been wiring money to the fraudster were victims of fraud.

The suspicion was triggered by a communication with one of Victor's victims who told Moneygram that she met the fraudster over the internet and that she had been sending him money because he claimed that he wanted to set up a business.

Investigations subsequently revealed that Victor is a serial marriage scammer. He has been fleecing his victims posing as Jerry Finger.

Apart from sending photograph of a successful white male with the assumed Identity of a Jerry Finger to his victims and promising them marriage, he was also telling them that he was in Nigeria to execute a project and then demand for money from them, with a promise to refund them when he is paid for the project. Some fell for the gimmick and paid.