Showing posts with label Romance scam. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Romance scam. Show all posts

Friday 25 September 2015

Nigerian Man Arraigned Over N4.5million Romance Scam On A Swedish Woman



The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on September 21, 2015 arraigned one Amadi Jude before Justice Emmanuel Obile of the Federal High Court Calabar, Cross River State on a 12-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence.

Saturday 8 August 2015

Romance Scam: A Conman Posed as United States General To Defraud British Women of £300,000

Robinson Agbonifoayetan
A fraudster who posed as an American general serving in Afghanistan conned two women out of more than £300,000 in just six months in what detectives believe was a multi-million-pound global scam.

Thursday 16 July 2015

Internet Dating Scam: How A Fake US Army Captain Conned Vulnerable Women Of £400,000

Tosin Femi Olasemo
A Nigerian fraudster masqueraded as a US Army captain serving in Afghanistan on an online dating profile to scam lonely women out of more than £400,000. 

Tuesday 14 July 2015

Six Nigerians Extradited To US From South Africa for Alleged Internet Scams

Six Nigerian nationals have been extradited from South Africa for their alleged role in Internet scams involving dating websites work-at-home schemes, the US Department of Justice said Monday.

Friday 5 September 2014

Scam Alert! 72-Year-Old Dutch Woman Swindled €200,000 By Her Nigerian Internet 'Lover'

LAGOS— A 31-year-old internet fraudster, Adio Opeyemi Michael, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for defrauding a 72-year-old Dutch woman of €200,000 (about N40.6 million) in a romance scam.

The suspect, who is a native of Owu Local Government Area of Ogun State, was said to have met his victim,
identified simply as Jeanet De Jonge, on Netlog dating site and pretended to be a 41-year-old American citizen working as a chef in a Nigerian restaurant and needs a wife.

Spokesman for the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, while confirming the report, told Vanguard that the suspect’s profile actually attracted Jeanet and she eventually began sending him money through Western Union and MoneyGram.

He further disclosed that the suspect collected various sums on the pretext that he was going to use the money to perfect his travel plans and obtain the required documents that would enable him travel to Holland to join or visit Jeanet. But his inability or refusal to honour the invitation from Jeanet promptedher to write a petition to the EFCC.

Sources at the EFCC told Vanguard that operatives of the anti-graft agency used information provided by the victim in her petition to track and apprehend the suspect.

Meanwhile, the suspect in his confessional statement said: “She was sending me money monthly, ranging from $800 to $900 from June 2012, through Western Union Money transfer and Money Gram to the extent that Western Union blocked her access.
“So, she requested that I should go to London to enable her send more money there. I contacted a friend in London called Osas Odiah, who was supposed to receive the money and dispatch same to me in Nigeria.
“She first sent €2,000 to my friend’s account in London and he didn’t remit the money to me. I later opened
a Keystone Bank Forex Trade account through which she sent me money.”

According to Wilson, the suspect will be arraigned in court as soon as investigation is concluded.

  - Vanguard