Oshanugo James Anyasi, 35, was sentenced to 12
years in jail Tuesday, September 29 ,by a Hanoi court, for two separate fraud
convictions, including one for pretending to love women and conning them out of
money and cyber fraud for appropriating other people’s assets.
The love con involved three others, including a Vietnamese woman who is serving a 3-year sentence and two other Nigerian men, the alleged masterminds, are still at large.
The four met each other in September 2012 and decided to cheat Vietnamese women by hooking up with them online, pretending to become their lovers and promising them expensive gifts, then faking phone calls and emails from customs and shipping agencies to ask them to transfer shipping fees to certain accounts.
Investigators found they had stolen more than 400 million (US$17,800) from 10 women. Anyasi got 15 percent for playing the role of an English businessman and chatting with the women, the Vietnamese got 10 percent, and the other two, reportedly based in Malaysia, took the rest.
The love con involved three others, including a Vietnamese woman who is serving a 3-year sentence and two other Nigerian men, the alleged masterminds, are still at large.
The four met each other in September 2012 and decided to cheat Vietnamese women by hooking up with them online, pretending to become their lovers and promising them expensive gifts, then faking phone calls and emails from customs and shipping agencies to ask them to transfer shipping fees to certain accounts.
Investigators found they had stolen more than 400 million (US$17,800) from 10 women. Anyasi got 15 percent for playing the role of an English businessman and chatting with the women, the Vietnamese got 10 percent, and the other two, reportedly based in Malaysia, took the rest.
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