A suspected internet
fraudster, Emeofa Michael Ikechukwu has been arrested by the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for allegedly obtaining the sum of One
hundred thousand United States Dollars from a Dane, Hengameh Misepasi in a romance scam.
Ikechukwu who also go by
the alias, Michael Briggs , was picked up in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, by
the Commission’s operatives following a petition from the Nigerian Embassy in
Stockholm, Sweden.
The suspect allegedly met
the victim online in February 2013 and falsely represented himself as an American business executive on business
visit to Nigeria.
In the course of the internet affair,
Ikechukwu promised his victim marriage and later began to make monetary demands
on her, using various excuses.
Once, he told her that he had problems with
government officials and requested for a loan. He later cajoled her into
partnering with him on a phantom timber business.
The last request he made
before he was arrested was a demand for $10,000 to enable him travel to Denmark
to meet her.
It was while he was attempting to draw the $100 sent by the
victim( instead of the $10,000 requested)
through Western Union that he was arrested.
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