Nigerian yahoo boys dupe British woman of the whopping sum of £1.6M

 

These two men were due to be sentenced Friday in connection with the scam in which the woman who is in her 40s handed over increasingly large sums of money to the man and his “associates”  over a period of 10 months last year 

Nigerian Ife Ojo, 31, who claimed to be studying at the London School of Business and Finance, and Olusegun Agbaje, 43, an NHS admin assistant of Hornchurch, Essex, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud at an earlier hearing.

Detectives believe they were part of a wider romance fraud gang – many of them based overseas – who target lone and vulnerable women on the Internet.

On their arrest police found a laptop containing records of conversations between the woman and the man called Anderson and a copy of The Game, a bestselling book on the art of seduction. 

Detective Chief Inspector Gary Miles, of the Met’s FALCON cyber crime and fraud task force, said: “This is a growing problem, in recent months we have seen an increase in reports of romance fraud.

“Within the past year Falcon officers have investigated the loss of more than £4 million in relation to about 100 victims. These victims were ruthlessly manipulated by men and women pretending to love them.