The Economic and Financial Commission (EFCC) has reportedly arrested a female internet fraudster whose name appears on the list of Nigerians indicted by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The Nation reports Muhtar Bello who is the head of the Benin Zonal office of the EFCC said, the arrest was made as a result of the collaboration between the agency and the FBI.

He said the female suspect whose name was withheld was arrested at a cyber café and that she worked as a collaborator with her foreign counterpart.

Bello said the female suspect was "involved in obtaining and stealing people's identification information which she forward to her American collaborators."

He said her American collaborators used the information to file fraudulent tax return with the Internal Revenue Service.

He stated that the "suspect received her CT through Bitcoin and about 185 Bitcoin currently worth N656m was traced to her."

Source: https://www.legit.ng