2 Nigerians arrested for global marriage scam 
Published on January 26, 2013 by pmnews · 11 CommentsTwo Nigerians have been arrested by Thai police for running a global marriage scam, posing as US Marines in Afghanistan and preying on hundreds of widows and single women, after worming themselves into their hearts.
Bangkok Post reported online that the country’s Department of Special Investigation (DSI) arrested the two Nigerians alleged to have defrauded about 20 million baht($670,000) from scores of Thai women through a global marriage scam in which they pretended to be US marines.
The full report by Bangkok Post:
“The DSI said Benjamin Olakunle Owewole,(possibly Oyewole) 44, and Oladapo Awooyele, 35, had told their victims they were US marines deployed in Afghanistan and promised to marry them after they completed the early retirement process from military service.
“They asked the victims to wire them money to help pay the discharge processing fees. One of the women eventually became suspicious and informed the authorities.
“The Nigerian men were arrested with approximately 11 million baht($367,400) in cash in their possession. The DSI reported that at least 400 women all over the world had fallen prey to the fraudsters and about 20 million baht had been scammed from the Thai victims.
“According to DSI chief Tharit Pengdit, the suspects had approached their targets, usually single women aged 40 or older, many of them widowed or divorced, via online chatrooms and Facebook.
“The alleged swindlers elaborated their stories by having accomplices play different roles, such as sick family members, superiors and subordinates calling the victims. The women were duped into wiring funds into accounts in Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan.
“The Bureau of Foreign Affairs and Transnational Crime, working with the police Crime Suppression and Technology Crime Suppression divisions arrested the two suspects at a shopping mall in Nonthaburi province.
“At their hotel room in Bangkok investigators found US$370,000 in cash along with computers and cellphones used in the scam.
“DSI investigators believe the gang is running their operation in several countries, including Sweden, Malaysia and Singapore, to make it difficult for authorities to gather evidence against them.
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ALL THESE LAZY YORUBA GUYS MESSING UP NIGERIA NAME ALL OVER THE WORLD. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SEE AN HAUSA MAN CAUGHT OPERATING A SCAM NETWORK?
Mallam Shehu, you are daft. Thank God you can still write in English. You dont steal money overseas but you steal in Nigeria. You know that you northern muslims are hypocrites always perpetrating evil things under religions and your leaders have made you slaves forever. I rememeber and Hausa man with his Ostas beard caught having sex with a boy of 10years. You will all rot in hell.
ALL THESE LAZY YORUBA AND IBO GUYS MESSING UP NIGERIA NAME ALL OVER THE WORLD. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SEE AN HAUSA MAN CAUGHT OPERATING A SCAM NETWORK?
Listen,Mallam or whatever you call yourself. Btw, am not condoning what these people did but you have no mouth to even talk right now against another tribe in Nigeria. Hausa men/women don’t have to do this kind of activity overseas or elsewhere for that matter, because all the looting you people (hausas) carried out in Nigeria is enough to feed you and more generation of yours to come. Hellooooooooooo.
@Mallam Shehu,do you ever think that you hausa/Fulani are regarded as human beingS in Nigeria?.YOU ARE ALL COWS.IF YOU ARE NOT COWS ,YOU WILL NOT CONDEMN WESTERN EDUCATION/CIVILIZATION @ THE SAME TIME USING WESTERN TECHNOLOGIES TO PASS YOUR STUPID INFORMATIONON INTERNET.ANIMALS
Mallam Shehu or sekuture, really??? seriously????….. definitely, there is something wrong with your head. You know what, before I even go any further, I want you to read this article:
http://www.gistmania.com/talk/topic,133114.0.html
“Kafanchan (Kaduna) – There was drama in court when Mrs Rafkatu Adamu, of Kafana Area in Kafanchan, Kaduna State on Wednesday wept in court, as her son, Joefrey Adamu, 26, pleaded guilty to theft.”
Ha! ha! ha! wonders shall never end. This is the case of charcoal calling the pot black. You are a nonsense mallam oooooo and you are crazy
These guys messed with a wrong nation. Thailand or Asian countries are the last places you wanna commit crime. They will gone for long if not forever. Adios Amigo
Another sad one.The Yahoo!Yahoo!! has robbed Nigeria of Generations. Yahoo Plus has taken our boys out of schools and Learning of Trade is no more fashionable among young men.Whenever Yahoo Plus fails serious Crime comes in.God have mercy on US.
@LUCAS, I WOULD THINK SOMEONE WHO CAN’T WRITE CORRECT ENGLISH LIKE YOU SHOULD NOT BE CALLING ANOTHER PERSON DAFT. GO BACK AND READ YOUR COMMENT AND CORRECT YOUR ENGLISH.
@OGBENI NAIJA, MY “MUMU” SOUTHERN BROTHER, DON’T GET UPSET, I WAS JUST WRITING BASED ON FACTS. WE NORTHERNERS DO NOT INVOLVE OURSELVES IN “419″ OVERSEAS. WE DO NOT LOOT ANY GOVERNMENT AT HOME NEITHER. YOU FORGOT THE SOUTH HAVE BEEN THE PRESIDENT FOR 12 YEARS IN THE PAST 14 YEARS. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR THE NATION.
WE THE HAUSA ARE BORN TO RULE NIGERIA FOR EVER. – IT IS A FACT. LOOK AT THE PRESENT ADMINISTRATION FOR EXAMPLE, WE HAVE A PUPPET SOUTHERN PRESIDENT, BUT THE HEAD OF POLICE IS HAUSA, HEAD OF CUSTOMS IS HAUSA, HEAD OF IMMIGRATIONS IS HAUSA, HEAD OF THE ARMED SERVICES IS HAUSA AND YOU THINK YOU ARE RULING US? OH! I FORGET WE GAVE YOU ALL A “LAYING DUCK” TOKEN HEAD OF ARMY POSITION.
Aboki….Pls think before u comment OK!! what resources can u find in the North where the whole nation money are spent…how many Nigerian graduates are jobless u are commenting rubbish… what happened when late Abacha was the president monkey? crimes start from the top,mind ur comment and never in ur life insult Igbos and Yoruba if u love urself .
Oh my God, this mallam Shehu is the greatest fool i met in 2013
you dont even have brain to face a consular to get a visa outside the shore of this country thats why you didnt extend your scam beyond Nigeria, i wonder the english your people will speak when they see a white man
Perhaps you are the only learned person in your Generation and i can tell,your greatest educational background is technical school cos ive not seen anything special in your grammar asshole