Last week one of our publishers reported a fictional story which was completely fabricated for joke and prank purposes but unfortunately published through our site's news channel. The content of the report which has been confirmed to be false, bared the content below:
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Abaeze Atuche is a hacker and he had done something that no hacker had ever attempted to do before.
Atuche hacked the US government and gave all members of his family and 15 of his friends’ permanent American citizenship. As we speak the American government is in a process of deporting all 33 people who got their citizenship as a result of Atuche’s hack.
No details as to how he pulled it off yet but insiders say his skills are unbelievable. "The US government online network is impregnable but this guy proved it otherwise. If he was not arrested I don’t think there was ever going to be an investigation on how his family members got their citizenship". Abaeze Atuche is only 29 and the hacking started five years ago when he was only 24-years-old. He entered the US using a fake American passport in 2013 and never left. By 2016 his big family and 15 of his Nigerian friends were permanent US citizens.
Atuche hacked the US government and gave all members of his family and 15 of his friends’ permanent American citizenship. As we speak the American government is in a process of deporting all 33 people who got their citizenship as a result of Atuche’s hack.
No details as to how he pulled it off yet but insiders say his skills are unbelievable. "The US government online network is impregnable but this guy proved it otherwise. If he was not arrested I don’t think there was ever going to be an investigation on how his family members got their citizenship". Abaeze Atuche is only 29 and the hacking started five years ago when he was only 24-years-old. He entered the US using a fake American passport in 2013 and never left. By 2016 his big family and 15 of his Nigerian friends were permanent US citizens.
FACT CHECK
The prank was initially posted on a prank engine, ihlayanews, which is a parody and fictional news website. The report has since been widely circulated by blogs and news websites on social media platforms- Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Ihlayanews said on its Facebook page that "we do all we can to make sure the articles are complete fiction."
No official statement has been released by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services or the US Department of Justice to attest to Atuche’s deeds and eventual arrest as reported in the article.
A search of the supposed hacker’s name “Abaeze Atuche” on the US Justice Department and US Citizenship and Immigration Services website did not yield any result.
A close look at different blogs and news websites that published the report showed that the article was being duplicated by other publishers. The websites all bared a picture of US Citizenship and Immigration Services logo munched beside a photograph of a black man held by an official of US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
A Google reverse image search showed that the picture was used inside reports of the 77 Nigerians that were indicted by FBI for fraud and money laundering in August. The report claimed Atuche was part of those arrested.
But a check by The Guardian showed that “Abaeze Atuche” was not in the full list of the 77 Nigerians indicted by the FBI.
The report has a statement attributed to none of American departments and agency.
“The US government online network is impregnable but this guy proved it otherwise. If he was not arrested I don’t think there was ever going to be an investigation on how his family members got their citizenship,” the statement without a source said.
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