31-YEAR-OLD NIGERIAN DUPES 72-YEAR-OLD DUTCH OF ABOUT N40.6M IN A ROMANCE SCAM An internet fraudster, Adio Opeyemi Michael, 31, a native of Owu Local Government Area of Ogun State has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC for defrauding a 72-year-old Dutch woman identified as Jeanet De Jonge of €200,000 which is about N40.6 million in naira. The two were said to have met on a dating site, Netlog. Adio’s profile where he had pretended to be a 41-year-old American citizen working as a chef in Nigeria who needs a wife attracted Jeanet. Adio pretended that he desires to join Jeanet in Holland eventually started sending money to him through Western Union Money Transfer and Money Gram for him to enable him perfect his travel plans and obtain the required documents. It was his refusal or inability to accept Jeanet’s invitation that prompted her to petition to EFCC and the suspect was tracked and apprehended with the information gathered from the victim’s petition. Please read below the suspect’s confessions: “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.” The suspect will be arraigned in court as soon as investigation is concluded.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 08:38:14 +0000
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