Nigeria student  who pretended to be American, convicted for love scam

A student Oluwatoyin Henry has been sentenced to six months in prison after he was convicted of a love scam.

The  EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Office, on Monday, secured the conviction  before Justice Sherifat Adeyemi of the Oyo State High Court sitting in Ibadan, on one count of obtaining by false pretences, .

Henry claimed to be a student of Ladoke Akintola University .

The charge read, “That you, Oluwatoyin Henry, sometime in 2019 at Ogbomoso, within the jurisdiction of this court, with intent to defraud, obtained the sum $1,200 from one Betty Mosley when you falsely represented to him that you are a citizen of United States of America by name Amanda, who is in love with him, which representations you knew to be false, thereby committing an offence.” Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, pleaded guilty to the amended charge after a plea bargain agreement with the prosecution.

Based on his plea, Henry was convicted and sentenced to six months in prison.

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The court ordered him to make restitution in the sum of $1,200 to his victim and forfeit his iPhone 11, Infinix Hot 5 and Nokia phones to the Federal Government of Nigeria.