Online scammer gets a decent jail term
A student from Nigeria scams a ‘poor’ woman of $47,000 and gets 19 years in jail in return.
The scammer, who is a “college student in Nigeria has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for scamming an Australian woman out of $47,000 online by pretending to be a widowed white businessman desperately in love with her”, CNN reports.
Nurudeen [the scammer] pretended to be a 57-year-old British engineer working with a multinational company in Nigeria. He told her his wife and only child had died in a road accident in Lagos, the former capital of the country.
“He sent the picture of a white man to the victim to foreclose any suspicions,” police said. The woman agreed to marry him.
A few weeks later, Nurudeen called the woman pretending to be a doctor. He told her that her fiance had been in an accident and needed money for treatment.
The woman obliged, the commission said.
Nurudeen let two weeks pass. He then called the woman again, thanking her profusely for her kindness and telling her that he would like to visit her in Australia. He asked her for airfare, cash for customs clearance and other incidentals, police said.
Quite a harsh but clear message.
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