The Economic and Financial Criems Commission has arrested a student who duped an American to the tune of N20 million.
Chikeluba Ebiechina (EFCC)
The Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC), has docked a young Nigerian, Chikeluba
Ebiechina, over a of £54,324.59 (about N20 million), love scam after he defrauded an American, K. Oaks, via Internet romance.
Ebiechina
who was arraigned before Justice O. A Ipaye of the High Court of Lagos
State, Ikeja, on a 17-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false
pretence, impersonation, forgery and using false document, is said to
have met his victim on Facebook using the fake identity, Lisa T.
Jackson, a United States citizen, where he has been making monetary
demands of his victims, using varies guises.
It
was in the same guise that Ebiechina defrauded Oaks of the amount in
March 2013, through Western Union on the pretext that he was an American
woman dealing in Gold in Nigeria and needed money to increase her
capital.
The unsuspecting victim, having already
proposed marriage to Ebiechina, not suspecting he was dealing with a
man, sent him the money.
It was only after
Ebiechina cut all links and communication channels with Oaks that it
dawned on him that he had been duped and sent a petition to the US
Embassy which notified the EFCC.
Ebiechina, a
21-year-old student of Federal Science and Technical College Yaba, was
arrested by the operatives of the EFCC on February 24, 2015.
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