Adewale Adewole (pictured here) used the photo of an
unconnected innocent man on match.com profiles to fool women into giving him
£100,000 to help fund a non-existent Nigerian orphanage has been jailed.
Adewale Adewole, of Carrfield Avenue, Little Hulton asked
for money through match.com and backed up fake personas on that site using
photos on Facebook.
He promised the women would be repaid.
The 31-year-old admitted four counts of fraud by false
representation and was sentenced at Manchester Crown Court to four years and
six months in prison.
Greater Manchester Police said Adewole had invented a
fake charity supporting an orphanage and created a website for it, which listed
the names of two fake directors.
He then used one of the names, along with a photo of an
unconnected, innocent man, to create profiles on the dating website.
Using those profiles, police said he romanced four women,
gained their trust and asked them for money to help the sick orphans, which he
told them he would repay.
When one woman told him she had no money, he asked her to
send an iPad and iPhone instead.
His fraud was uncovered when one woman became suspicious
and contacted the World Health Organization, who told her the orphanage did not
exist.
Det Con Shaun Nicholls said Adewole had "preyed on
the vulnerability and kind-heartedness of the victims.
"Through deceit and dishonesty, the victims were
conned into believing they had entered into a loving relationship and had a
future with Adewole. But instead they were taken advantage of and their trust
was shattered."
Source: BBC
