Tag: romance scam
How ‘Dubai Prince’ Henry Nzube and his ally scammed Romanian woman of $2.5m
An investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) has uncovered how two well-connected Nigerians allegedly posed as…
71 months for Romance Scam: Nigerian dupes US widow of $1.6m
A U.S. court has sentenced Nigerian national Adetomiwa Seun Akindele to 71 months in prison for orchestrating a $1.6 million…
How Daniel Chima ran $405,000 romance scam in US
A 40-year-old Nigerian, Daniel Chima Inweregbu, has pleaded guilty in the United States to charges of fraud after running a…
‘I was in love with a lie’: British woman scammed of £200,000 by Nigerian romance fraudster
A British woman in her sixties has shared a heartbreaking story of how she was conned out of £200,000 in…
Fiancée upkeep: Catherine Ugwu allegedly dupes man of over N6.8m
She was arraigned on a four -count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretence, criminal misappropriation and cheating by impersonation…
Nigerian Eze Josiah jailed 2 years over $300 fraud
Delivering judgment, Justice Aliyu Shafa, also gave Eze Josian an option of a fine of N500, 000. Shafa ordered the…
Nigerian Muhammad poses as Lady Aisha, scams Malaysian
Investigation revealed that Muhammad had three different active Malaysian WhatsApp numbers in his phones which were also linked to a…
Nigeria’s Emmanuel jailed for scamming Australian $15,000
The Lagos Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday secured the conviction and sentencing of…
Court jails Lagos boy, Oke Gideon for internet fraud
Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court sentenced a Lagos based 20-year-old boy, Oke Gideon, to 30 days…
Romance scams: Kogi youth corps member Sam Abiola convicted
A corps member, Sam Abiola, serving in Kogi has been convicted for romance scam by Justice Adenike Akinpelu of the…
Opashola Abdullahi Offa Health Tech Lecturer pleads guilty to romance scam
Opashola Abdullahi, a lecturer of the Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa, has pleaded guilty to a charge of…
US court jails Nigerian Victor Alonge for romance scam
Olu Victor Alonge, charged along with six other Nigerians with a multi-year wire fraud scheme, has been sentenced to a…
EFCC arrests Kind Thankgod, one other for romance scam
Two suspected Internet fraudsters, Ochuko Okikifo, 24, and Kind ThankGod, 34, were on Wednesday August 28, 2019 arrested in Sapele,…
2 Ilorin romance scammers posing as white ladies jailed
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ilorin Zonal Office has secured the conviction of Samuel Emmanuel Magaaji and Balogun…
$322K romance scam: Thai police declare 2 Nigerians wanted
Two Nigerians, John Oquejiofor Ugwu and Ugochukwu Geoffrey Ofoma, have been declared wanted in Thailand in connection with an online…
Romance Scam: Court jails fraudster for defrauding American $5,260
Justice J.K Omotosho of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has convicted and sentenced Onuoha Danhessy…