Nigeria: Man Poses As Woman, Swindles American in Need of Lover of $80,000

22 August 2017

The Police in Osun said that they have arrested a 23-year-old suspected internet fraudster (name withheld) for allegedly duping an American of U.S.$80,000 (N28.8 million).

Police Commissioner Fimihan Adeoye told newsmen in Osogbo that the suspect allegedly committed the crime by posing as a woman to the unsuspecting man on a dating site on the internet.

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