Several credit card numbers extracted from Naira Marley’s phone – EFCC testifies

<p>Augustine Anosike, a forensic expert with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in the case of Afeez Fashola popularly known as Naira Marley, testified on Tuesday.</p>, <p>The second prosecution witness (PW2) appeared before Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos.</p>, <p>Anosike narrated how some credit card numbers were extracted while analyzing the contents of a total of 2,410 messages found in the defendant’s phone.</p>, <p>Naira Marley was arraigned by the EFCC on May 20, 2019, on an 11-count charge bordering on conspiracy, possession of counterfeit credit cards and fraud. He pleaded not guilty.</p>, <p>Anosike told the court that Exhibit F was a conclusion of his analysis of the defendant’s iPhone X version 10.6, model A 1901, with number 07427343432 and an email, </p>, <p>The detective gave the IMEI number of the iPhone as: 35304509527532 as well as the SIM ICCID number as 8923420035948359826.</p>, <p>He told prosecution counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, that the Apple iPhone is a sophisticated device capable of storing a large volume of information.</p>, <p>“It is the SIM card that basically identifies users of applications like WhatsApp. It means as long as a number has already been registered with a particular WhatsApp account, it matters less if such a user leaves the country.”</p>, <p>Anosike explained there are cases where a WhatsApp application can still be used even though the registered SIM card is not inserted in the phone.</p>, <p>“The chatting app used in the analysed device was WhatsApp. A total of 977 Short Message Service (SMS) and 1433 chat messages were discovered.</p>, <p>“We also discovered seven pending status update messages. On November 26, 2018, there was an outgoing message registered about 3.32 p.m., with a credit card number 5264711020433662.</p>, <p>“This message was sent to one Yadd. On December 11, 2018, there was an incoming message to the defendant’s device which read: “Your One Time Passcode (OTP) to verify your mobile number is 248716; was