Man to Spend Two Years over Internet Love Scam

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Man to Spend Two Years over Internet Love Scam

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Justice Kudirat Jose of a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Wednesday sent a man, Ibobo Frank alias James Simmons to two years’ imprisonment for defrauding two American women when he posed as their white lover. The judge arrived at the decision after the convicted Simmons pleaded guilty to a two-count charge of possession of documents containing false pretence, made against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). According to amended information dated February 2016, lawyer to the EFCC, Mr. A. A. Adebayo informed the judge that the anti-graft agency got a petition from “a concerned Nigerian that a group of small boys living at different apartments located at Westwood Estate, Lekki, Ajah, Badore in Lagos, were living far beyond their means of livelihood.” The lawyer further stated that after preliminary investigation was carried out, operatives of the anti-graft agency swooped on Westwood Estate on January 7, and effected the arrest of Frank. Adebayo added that as at the time Frank was arrested, Frank had in his possession, with intent to defraud, email conversations sent between September 24 and December 18, 2014, which contained false information claiming to be a white man to one Nancy Rooley. The counsel added that the defendant equally had in his possession email conversations sent between December 15 and 27, which contained false representation of himself as James Simmons, a white man purportedly in love with one Shirley Davis. However, when confronted with the evidence, Frank entered a plea bargain with the anti-graft agency. Prior to the sentence, lawyer to the accused, Tokunbo Olawuyi told the court that, “Frank is a young man in his twenties and a first time offender. He was abandoned by his father in infancy and is the sole breadwinner of an aged mother and a two-year-old son. He fell into bad company because he had no fatherly figure to guide him in life and he has now fully seen the error in his ways.” But in sending the defendant to jail, the judge issued a warning to Frank that he should not go back to crime. The judge added, “The defendant is sentenced to a term of two years imprisonment to take effect from January 6, 2015, the date the defendant was arrested and detained by the EFCC. “The defendant shall undertake to be of good behaviour upon regaining his freedom.”

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