Nigerian student gets 19 years' jail for love scam

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Not quite a Newb Joined: 04 Oct 2008 Posts: 71

Sorry if its a repost. Real justice served for a lad!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090316/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_nigeria_australia_scam

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:14 pm

You just beat me to it, this was on several Dutch news sites just now. This lad was certainly made an example of!
(Click for anyone interested in reading this news in Dutch). Wink

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:21 pm

I like this part.

Quote:

Many are never caught.

Should have said:

Quote:

Hardly any are ever caught.

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:26 pm

Dr. Max Wieldruk wrote:

for anyone interested in reading this news in Dutch). Wink

Thanks for the easy read Wink

Nice nick btw (though I know it as "Max Laadvermogen" Wink

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419Eater is my life Joined: 10 Jul 2008 Posts: 366

Another link to Times of Nigeria

http://www.thetimesofnigeria.com/Article.aspx?id=1507

A final year student of the Department of Survey and Geo-Informatics Engineering, University of Lagos, Mr. Lawal Adekunle Nurudeen has been sentenced to 19 years imprisonment for obtaining $27,900.91 from an Australian woman, Pee Loo Rosalind Summer.

Simple sentence 19 counts a year each. EFCC got involved in this one.

p.

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:42 pm

I just read that on another site...very good news... clapping

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:42 pm

I can't help but wonder how many (if any) lads will read this and quit scamming.

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:47 pm

^^^Meh. None will quit. What's the arrest/conviction rate for this crime - 0.0000001%?

419Eater is my life Joined: 10 Jul 2008 Posts: 366

@blah It takes a lot to make them quit. One of the Safari guys we worked on has been on two Safaris including a stint in government accomidations in Cameroon and then run through Benin.

Alan has deprived him of a couple bank accounts one of them his.

Far as I can tell he is still doing it. (anyone want an ATM card Cool

)

p.

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:57 pm

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Pee Loo Rosalind Summer

Sounds like a baiter name Laughing

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:45 pm

Quote:

A Nigerian undergraduate has been sentenced to 19 years in
prison for obtaining $47,000 (33,382 pounds) from an Australian woman by
convincing her over the Internet that he was 57 years old, white, and madly in
love with her.

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1044348

Smile

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:49 pm

I think it's GREAT that Yahoo picked this up and put it on their main news page! Maybe a few lovelorn saps will read that and think twice before they fall for their Mr. or Mrs. Right that they met on the internet who is now asking them to send money.

Every bit of publicity means fewer real vics.

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:13 am

Wow...that's a hard hitting punishment... Shocked

Last week a man was sentenced to three years in prison for throwing his shoe at a visiting dignatory, whilst in England, another man served 16 days in prison for causing death by dangerous driving.

Its a funny old world..... Rolling Eyes

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:13 am

Any lad arrests are great news. Very Happy

419Eater is my life Joined: 10 Jul 2008 Posts: 366

Link to the story on the EFCC website.

http://www.efccnigeria.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=570&Itemid=34

Essentially the same as The Times of Nigeria story.

It is worth looking at the press releases and news on the EFCC website to see just how big a problem fraud in its various forms is in Nigeria. There is some words of encouragement in some of the press releases like this one from 11 Nov 2008

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BANK FRAUD: MONEYGRAM SEEKS PARTNERSHIP WITH EFCC

MoneyGram International ,a global money transfer company along with its agent banks in Nigeria has assured the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC of its continued commitment to fighting fraud and other economic crimes. The assurance was given by Chris Botes, MoneyGram Regional Compliance Director during a visit with some bank executives to the Executive Chairman of the EFCC,Mrs Farida Waziri at her office in Abuja last weekend.

“ MoneyGram and its partner banks in Nigeria will continue to pro-actively fight fraud in Nigeria and in specific, guard against being used by trans-national fraud syndicates”, he promised. Botes also promised that his organisation would always utilize modern information technology which automatically screens and filters transactions to counter fraud and money laundering.

p.

Master Baiter Joined: 07 Dec 2008 Posts: 186

Maybe he'll resort to the old fashioned snail mail cons next. I used to get a few of those from time to time. Never did respond to any but the stamps were good for my collection!

Master Baiter Joined: 11 Dec 2008 Posts: 108

Wow ... I'm impressed finally they caught someone, up till now all I have heard were sad stories about scam victims ... It's good to see some effort is being made, even a small one.

19 years in prison is a bit harsh, maybe authorities wanted to make an example?

419Eater is my life Joined: 20 Jan 2009 Posts: 445

He got what he deserved, but any idea why he was singled out?

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 7:04 am

The timing of this is perfect! I have been stalling my Lad for quite some time, and was not sure of the next step .. but thanks to this article, I have come up with the following

Quote:

Ch13f,

I am so happy that you were able to provide P3t3r with some food and money, I do worry about him so. Rest assured if it was not for poor P3t3r's situation I would have given up on this transaction long ago due to all the problems we have faced.

I was surprised that the price has gone up to $1000 now. Can you tell me any details as to why it has gone up so much? I went to the bank today and they informed me that to send an amount larger than $900 dollars incurs a much larger fee. Based on this information I have decided to wait until Monday when I have a day off, and then find the nearest moneygram or Western Union office and just send the money that way.

I rang ahead and asked if they have any security procedures in place (I hope no stupid forms this time), they said they have implemented a new website that the reciever visits with a username and password provided, and you just go through the website to get the number needed to claim the money. The man at the office told me this is a new procedure due to a case that has just been tried in Nigeria (I know this is not where you are from, but for some reason they have implemented this for all African transfers). If you wish to read any information about the case you can click on this link http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090316/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_nigeria_australia_scam . It seems that because of the number of scams that are being run from African nations they have tightened security for transfers going into Africa.

I will say a prayer for P3t3r and hope that we will soon be passed this dificult time, and can move onto a time when he will be happy in my country without a worry in the world.

Regards

T0m

I figure this is a great way to get him to waste more time in the 'security website' that gets the lad to click around and around and around.

He should be seeing red within a few days.

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:36 pm

What scammer only runs one scam at a time? He probably had several more going, and LE may be aware of multiple scams, but only able to charge on this one (e.g. have enough evidence and/or a victim willing to come forward). That might be why the sentence seems steep, too--I've seen that strategy before--if you can't get individual charges sustained for each offense, go for the max on the one you can get to stick, especially if you can include the others as part of the evidence.

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:24 pm

pablo wrote:

It is worth looking at the press releases and news on the EFCC website to see just how big a problem fraud in its various forms is in Nigeria.

Especially scroll down to the "Download Centre" and take a look at the magazines they produce.
Nice story about 2 women working for a bank in the WU section.

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 3:42 pm

AL1VE wrote:

He got what he deserved, but any idea why he was singled out?

The cynic in me says it was probably because he failed to pay off the EFCC. Confused

Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 11:48 pm

It indeed was a Gambian woman and 3 nigerian men. those scammers.
They then was on tv, and showen in the news as they do there, when the scammers are caught.
Put up to puplic humiliation in the best time news and in days..

Yes i have some knowledge also about african tv.
It is not as short clips as here in the european countrys, they show all details questions and face expresions, true entertainment.. well not for them selves.

As i was told. he mailed with the woman.
Then fell in love, went from australia to her, and there he was kidnapped.
They demanded money and well i can check all filthy details. but they sure got caught.
And this is a joy..

Those kidnappings are also too many, and also that they can pretend to be.. victims kidnapped as a scam. but well too obvious imho..
This was just a gang.
And nice to get more flies in a stroke, sort of speach.

419Eater is my life Joined: 11 Jun 2006 Posts: 289

Quote:

Lawal Adekunle Nurudeen met his victim on the Internet in 2007

I wonder if anyone here had ever baited this guy. I baited a guy once with a name real similar to that (Adekunle was his supposed middle name as well as this guys) but I doubt it was the same one.

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