Tag: romance scam
US jails two Nigerians 10 years for $6m fraud
Two Nigerians Okechuckwu Osuji and Tolulope Bodunde have been sentenced to a combined 10 years in prison by a US federal court for their...
Two Nigerians sentenced to 30 years in US prison for $3.5m...
Two Nigerians Anthony Ibekie and Samuel Aniukwu have been sentenced to a combined 30 years in US federal prison for defrauding victims of $3.5...
Anambra LGA chairman Franklin Nwadialo arrested in Texas over alleged $3.3m...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States has arrested chairman of Ogbaru Local Government Area (LGA) in Anambra State Franklin Nwadialo...
Two Nigerians charged with impersonating Bruno Mars for fraud
Two men of Nigerian origin face between two and 10 years in state prison if convicted of impersonating American singer Bruno Mars on Instagram...
Lecturer pleads guilty to romance scam in Kwara
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday arraigned a lecturer of the Kwara State College of Health Technology, Offa Opashola Abdullahi on...
Fake Frederick Leonard arrested in Lagos over $7,000 romance scam
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Lagos has arrested a man Ezekiel Emmanuel for allegedly defrauding an American national Collins Meresha to...
Three Nigerians charged with romance fraud in Ireland
Three Nigerian men have been charged with involvement in romance fraud in the Republic of Ireland.
Rasak Sadu, Omawale Owalabi and Samson Ajayi aged between...
Nigerian arraigned in US over $6m romance scam
A Nigerian, Martins Inalegwu, 31, was on Wednesday arraigned in a court in the United States for allegedly playing part in a wire and...
10 Nigerians charged in US over $1.1m romance scams
US authorities have charged 10 Nigerians for allegedly conspiring
to launder illegal proceeds that were fraudulently obtained through romance
scams.
US Justice Department said on Wednesday night...
Three Nigerians arrested over romance scam in Thailand
A 38-year-old Nigerian has been arrested by Thai police
for alleged romance scam about a month after two other Nigerians were arrested
for the same offence.
The...