Checkout shocking evidence provided by EFCC witness which proves Naira Marley may be guilty of internet fraud.
The court hearing of popular singer; Azeez Fashola aka Naira Marley, kicked off on the 22nd of October 2019.
It was however adjourned to yesterday the 23rd of October. Naira Marley was charged with 11 counts of internet fraud cum cyber crimes aka “Yahoo Yahoo”.
During the court hearing yesterday, certain revelations were made.
The trial kicked off with the EFCC calling its first prosecution witness, Mr. Nuru Buhari, the head of EFCC’s Forensic Department. He was led in evidence by the prosecutor Barrister Rotimi Oyedepo.
Buhari told the court that some presumably stolen credit card details were retrieved from the musician’s laptop
Apart from the stolen credit card details, information on the visit history recovered from the laptop showed that the top five most visited sites dealt with buying and selling stolen credit card information.
Responding to questions from the prosecutor, Mr. Rotimi Oyedepo, the witness said that during analysis, the cache file and history file revealed that the most frequently visited sites by the user of the computer included:
“arder007.org, Zuni.sa, nationwidecheckbalance.co.uk, ferunshop.net, and cocoa.co.uk,”
According to him, analysis of the websites revealed that:
“Web 1 is where stolen card information is being sold to intending fraudsters.
“Web 2 is for stolen credit cards specifically for the UK, whereas Web 3 is an online website designed for UK cardholders to check their balance wherever they are around the world.
“Web 4 is a dark web meaning an underground tunnel on the Internet where stolen credit card information is sold and traded.
Web 5 is an online shopping mall where members are given discounts for shopping from certain shops.”
The witness told the court that his team also found a file named, Select BIN 101.txt and .txt. After opening the file, they discovered it contained “stolen credit card information with a special status that allows transaction up to 12,000 dollars without a pin or physical card
He said
“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, Santander UK PLC. Cards issued by these banks are cards which do not require pins. All that is needed to execute a transaction is the card number and the CVV number.
Mr. Nuru also said that the analysis of installed apps on Marley’s laptop showed that two of them, IP VANISH and TOR Browser, enabled the owner of the computer to disguise his identity and location. The apps are mostly used by people with shady deals on the internet that were found on the laptop.
His exact words were;
“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, which provides that the actual computer and location of usage cannot be identified. It also gives the user the ability to change their location.
The witness also revealed that an analysis of the administrator account on the laptop showed that the admin is one Naira Marley and the account was connected to his iCloud account.
At the end of Mr. Nuru’s evidence, Mr. Oyedepo tendered the request for the analysis of apple laptop mac book pro and an iPhone labeled by the court as exhibit A and B, a laptop mac book pro and an iPhone allegedly confiscated from the defendant which was admitted as exhibits.