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Two Nigerians Charged Over Internet Scam In Singapore by iykecicero: 11:58am On May 14, 2019
Two Nigerians Charged Over Internet Scam In Singapore - Channels Television

Two Nigerian men believed to be members of an internet love scam syndicate were charged in Singapore on Tuesday with recruiting local women to collect money for them, police said.

Such scams, where victims part with cash after a fraudster feigns romantic interest in them, are a growing concern in the city-state with police reporting 660 cases last year.

The Nigerians — identified in local news reports as Oladayo Opeyemi Awolola, 34, and Gbolahan Ayobami Awolola, 37 — were arrested by Malaysian authorities in Kuala Lumpur last month and sent to Singapore on Monday.

The men allegedly recruited two Singaporean women “as money mules to receive criminal proceeds linked to internet love scams in Singapore” between 2017 and 2018, according to a police statement.

The women received Sg$85,700 ($63,000) during that period and turned the money over to syndicate members in Malaysia, police said.

The Nigerians could be jailed for up to five years each and fined if convicted.

It is the first time that suspects based overseas and involved in internet love scams have been arrested and sent to Singapore for prosecution, police said.

Most of the internet love scams reported last year in the city-state involved fraudsters claiming to have sent parcels containing luxury items or money.

Their local accomplices would call the “recipients” and claim the parcels were being held by the authorities for inspection, and would only be released if they transferred money to a bank account.

https://www.channelstv.com/2019/05/14/two-nigerians-charged-over-internet-scam-in-singapore/
Re: Two Nigerians Charged Over Internet Scam In Singapore by AllenSpencer: 12:02pm On May 14, 2019
Oladayo Opeyemi Awolola, 34, and Gbolahan Ayobami Awolola, 37


This duos must have spent the early parts of their life's in the Biafra. Afonja's are not known for fraud except via influences
Re: Two Nigerians Charged Over Internet Scam In Singapore by LuciferAkbar: 12:19pm On May 14, 2019
iykecicero:
Oladayo Opeyemi Awolola, 34, and Gbolahan Ayobami Awolola, 37

Head slamming morons have gone to sophisticate Singapore.

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