At the trial of Azeez Fashola, popularly known as Naira Marley, which opened on wednesday at the Federal High Court, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has tendered as exhibits, an Apple laptop and an iPhone belonging to him.
An investigator with the EFCC, Nuru Buhari, who is a forensic expert, said that evidence of credit fraud were retrieved from Naira Marley’s laptop.
According to him, “some of the credit card information belonged to four persons in the United Kingdom (UK) including one Nicole Louise.” The Nation reported.
During his examination in chief led by Mr Rotimi Oyedepo prosecuting counsel, Buhari said;
“During analysis, the cache file and history file revealed that the most frequently visited sites by the user of the computer includes arder007.org, Zuni.sa, nationwidecheckbalance.co.uk, ferunshop.net AMD cocoa.co.uk.”
“Analysis of the websites revealed that web 1 is where stolen card information is sold to intending fraudsters, web 2 is for stolen credit cards specifically for the UK, web 3 is an online website designed for UK card holders to check their balance wherever they are around the world, web 4 is a dark web meaning an underground tunnel in the internet where stolen credit card information are sold and traded, web 5 is an online shopping mall where members are given discounts for shopping from certain shops.”
“For the note file, two major files were discovered named .txt which contained about four credit card information belonging to four different personalities in the UK including one Nicole Louise. ”
“The second file is named selected BIN101.txt containing Bank Identification Number of European, American and Latin American banks.
“When we ran the BIN code search for the first six digits of the cards, it revealed they are Visa cards issued by Barclay’s bank, Sandander UK plc.”
Buhari evidence in chief further revealed that an analysis allowed his team to identify “certain banks in the US, Europe and Asia with certain peculiarities, these are banks that they issue credit cards without pins based on the high level of trust, they allow a transaction of up to $12,000 in a swipe on pos.”
“Cards issued by those banks are card not required. All you need to execute a transaction is the card number and the Security number. ”
According to him, applications which are widely used by people with illegal deals on the internet were found on the laptop and the administrator account on the same laptop revealed that Naira Marley is the admin and the account was connected to his iCloud account.
He said: “We analysed installed apps on the laptop and we found two apps that enables the owner of the computer to decide the server of a bank as to his identity and location, IP VANISH and TOR browser.
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“The TOR browser is sometimes called the onion. Most of the criminals cover their tracks with various layers just like an onion using this app to make it near impossible for a tracker to track their location.
“The IP VANISH is a virtual private network (VPN) which provides that the actual computer and location of usage cannot be identified. It also gives the user the ability to change their location.”
Naira Marley, the popular musician, had been arrested by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, after he released a song titled “Am I a Yahoo boy”
He was charged to the Federal High Court Lagos on a 11-count charge of credit fraud and arraigned in court in May 20.
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