Four yahoo, yahoo (internet fraud) experts and six trainees were arrested at internet fraud training facility, commonly referred to as “Yahoo School”, operating in the Iju area of Lagos state, the police have announced, PM NEWS reports.

However, the owner of the school is on the run, spokesperson for Lagos Police Command, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, said in a statement, in Lagos on Tuesday.

Hundeyin said that during the successful operations, the police detectives apprehended four yahoo experts, of ages 22, 23, 25, and 26, who were running the notorious school.

He said the other six suspects, who are between the ages of 12 and 26, are their criminal trainees, all of whom were undergoing training in cybercrime and fraud.

The  Lagos Police spokesperson said preliminary investigations revealed that the principal suspects of the facility recruited their trainees from Anambra, engaged them to commit internet fraud and other related crimes.

“The proceeds from their fraudulent activities were being confiscated by the principal suspects,” he said.

According to him, all suspects have been transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID), Yaba, for further discreet investigation and prosecution.

The image maker said that efforts were on to apprehend other accomplices.

"Efforts are ongoing to apprehend the sponsors who financed the trainees’ enrolment in the school, as well as the owner of the facility where these criminal and illegal activities took place.