A gang of heartless Nigerian online scammers who succeeded in defrauding a British woman the whopping sum of 1.6million pounds have been nabbed by British authorities.
Ife Ojo
Olusegun Agbaje
Greedy and heartless Nigerian scammers have succeeded in defrauding a British woman of a whopping sum of over £1.6million while posing as wealthy engineers. The internet fraudsters who tricked the British woman into falling in love, made her borrow large sums for a bogus project that was all false.
The woman in her 40s from Hillingdon, north west London, thought she was in an online relationship with a divorcee father-of-one called Christian Anderson.
But little did she know she was actually being tricked by a gang of fraudsters including Ife Ojo, 31, and Olusegun Agbaje, 43, who duped her into 'loaning' them a staggering £1.6million, telling her the money was needed to free up inheritance so they could start a new life together.
a book of poems for love messages and Neil Strauss' The Game used in seducing women
She had even met with someone pretending to be Anderson's lawyer and travelled to Amsterdam to discuss money that was supposedly being held in a vault, as well as searching for houses where she could live with Anderson once the money came through.
Ojo and Agbaje were arrested at Agbaje's home in Hornchurch, Essex. When police searched Nigerian student Ojo's home in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, they found a copy of Neil Strauss's bestselling dating manual The Game with them, which reveals the the skills and techniques used by 'pick up gurus' to seduce women. They also used a book of love poems called For You, My Soul Mate: Loving Messages To Share With A Very Special Person, by Douglas Pagels to help them seduce the unsuspecting woman.
the dating manual they used in learning their secrets
NHS administrative assistant Agbaje and Ojo had been due to be sentenced today, after they admitted conspiracy to defraud following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police's specialist cyber crime and fraud detectives - FALCON.
However, the case at Basildon Crown Court was adjourned until January 8 by Judge Jonathan Black. Agbaje and Ojo were remanded in custody.
Between March and December 2014, the victim paid £1.6million into numerous bank accounts, with the money then transferred into various personal accounts, including £35,000 to the bank accounts of Ojo and Agbaje.
The victim doubted the authenticity of Anderson's stories on numerous occasions but every time she asked for proof he sent false documentation or made up excuses for why he could not send her evidence.
In January of this year, the woman reported the crime to FALCON, which carried out a financial investigation. They identified Agbaje as one of the recipients of the victim's money and went to his home address where they found him with Ojo.
FALCON established that between them the paid had received £35,000 of the victim's cash. Detectives are continuing to seek out other members of the gang and try to identify any other victims.