19-year old convicted for duping a French widow

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The Nation  15/12/2007
    
 
He is a secondary school leaver, but at 19, Bashiru Jimmy Omitokun is already the leader of an internet fraud syndicate that specializes in defrauding women, especially widows who are desperate to find love again. Omitokun and his accomplice, Oladapopu Wasiu,Dopemu Rasheed Lukman and Fatia Ganiu will-spend the next 12 years behind bars for defrauding a widow of French nationality of 17,400 dollars (about N2.16 million) under false pretence.

The suspects were sentenced without option of fine at the Ikeja High Court by Justice Olubunmi Oyewole. They had early been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), who charged them to court after investigation.

It was learnt that Omitokun, operating with the name Mike Edward, an American resident in Texas, met the widow, a mother of two on a dating set on the internet.

Omitokun who posed as an elderly person, opened a chat with the woman and while it lasted, promised to bring her out of her grief and that he was going to love her and make her feel wanted again.

Operatives disclosed to The Nation that the widow, who thought that the suspect was genuine, fell for his lies. Omitokun it was gathered cashed in on the fact that the unsuspecting woman had fallen in love with him to perfect his plan to dupe her.

Commenting on the arrest, the spokesman of the commission, Mr. Osita Nwaja said when the suspect was convinced that the widow had fallen in love with him, he started telling her about a contract that he had with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), which he was in the country to execute and how his money was tied up in a bank and can not be accessed for the propose of the transaction. The suspect pleaded with the widow to assist him with some money to execute the contract with a promise to return same the moment he is paid for the job.

He also allegedlytold the woman to send him a laptop as he would need it to be in contact with her wherever he was. Nwaja revealed that the widow who was already madly in love, obliged without wasting any time. She sent the money in batches as the suspect kept demanding and later the laptop. However, after dating on the internet for some months, the widow requested that Omitokun should take a time off to come and see her as she would love to behold the man that had stolen her heart. It was learnt that at this invitation to come over to France to visit the widow, Omitokun stopped chatting with her. All effort by the widow to communicate with the suspect proved abortive and it then occurred to her that she may have been duped.

According to Nwaja, after the discovery, the victim petitioned the commission and the search for the suspect began. The widow in the process remembered that the suspect gave her pass word to his e-mail address. She opened it and to her amazement discovered that she had been dealing with a 19-year old and she was also able to get his real photograph, which she forwarded to the EFCC.
 

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Unilag student Arrested For Scam

By Astro Jewoola

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested Mr. Lawal Adewale Nurudeen for duping a 55-year old Australian woman, Ross Sumner of a total sum of $47,817.93 through the internet.

Lawal Adewale was until his arrest a part-four student of Surveying and Geoinformatic Engineering at the University of Lagos, Akoka. He is married and has two grown-up children.

According to an EFCC source, Adewale met Ross on the website chinesekisses.com but did not disclose his true identity.

“He told Ross that he was a Briton and an engineer handling construction work for the Federal Government of Nigeria.”

It was learnt that Adewale, who cajoled Ross with romantic messages on the net to get her, also asked for financial assistance to enable him get to Australia. Ross obliged him by sending him some money through Western Union.

Adewale confessed that he took money from her and used it to purchase a plot of land and a Honda Prelude car. He said he invested N200,000 out of the loot. But nemesis caught up with him as he did not show up in Australia as promised, which made Ross report the matter at Queensland Police Command, Australia.

It was discovered at Read Brendan Computer Crime Investigation Unit where it was detected that Adewale was an internet fraudster.

Adewale confessed that he operated about seven e-mail addresses, which he used to perpetrate the fraud among which are bensonlawson_200@yahoo.com, bensonlawson2000@hotmail.com and greg8755@gmail.com.

Others are dr.saheedbakare@yahoo.com, muradelochemical@yahoo.com, waleadex05@yahoo.com and banwasl@gmail.com.

another ”yahoo” boy jailed

The number of cyber scammers, known in local parlance as yahoo-boys that will spend this yuletide season behind bars keeps soaring by the day as another one, Michael Nweke, has joined the long list of those already behind bars.

Nweke was on Monday sentenced to 26 months imprisonment by an Ikeja High Court presided by Justice Muniru Oloko-Oba for advance fee fraud.

Before the judgement was passed, the accused pleaded guilty to a two-count charge of forgery and advance fee fraud levelled against him by the EFCC.

EFCC prosecutor, Mrs. Aishat Abubakar, told the court that the accused on 21 February, 2006, at a cyber cafe called Timasy Business Links, situated at 8B, Akerele Street, Surulere, Lagos with intent to defraud, forged an e-mail captioned: “Confidential Business Proposal” dated 21 February, 2006 and purportedly sent by Dude Orumen, the Finance Director of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

The prosecutor also told the court that the accused forged an e-mail captioned: ‘2005/2006 Recent Resolution/Development on Nigerian Non Payment of Contractors Overdue Contract Funds,” dated January 17, 2006 and purported to have been written by the same Dude Orumen.

Counsel for the accused pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy because the accused has realised his sin and in order not to waste the time of the court changed his plea to guilty.

He said the accused has learnt his lesson in prison custody.

In his judgement, Justice Oloko-Oba accepted the guilty plea of the accused and convicted him as charged. He said he was glad to learn that the accused had been reformed in prison custody but said justice must be done to deter others from committing criminal offences.

He sentenced the accused to 20 months imprisonment without an option of fine. The sentence is to commence from the first date of arraignment of the accused in court, 7 July, 2006.

–kayode fabunmi