Yahoo Boy Pretending To Be A Woman, Scams US Citizen Of $2300

Yahoo Boy Pretending To Be A Woman, Scams US Citizen Of $2300

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal
Office, today  arraigned Ajibade Wasiu Oladotun, pictured above, before
Justice M.A. Onyetenu of the Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun
State on a three-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false
pretence and possession of false document.

A statement from the antigraft agency says one of the counts reads:

“That you, Ajibade Wasiu Oladotun sometimes in the month of March
2017, at Ile-Ife in Osun State, within the jurisdiction of this
Honourable Court, with intent to defraud, did obtain by false pretence
the sum of $2,300 (Two Thousand Three Hundred Dollars) from one Chris
Odom who resides in the United States of America, under the pretence
that you are a woman named Lola Parker, ready to marry him and that the
money was to be part of the air ticket from KLM flight from Lagos,
Nigeria to Seattle in the United States of America, which you knew to be
false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1 (1) &
(2) and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and
other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006”.

Oladotun pleaded “not guilty” to the charges.

Prosecuting counsel, Adeola Elumaro, thereafter, applied for a trial
date and for the defendant to be remanded in prison custody.

However, counsel for the defendant, Babafemi Iyiola, moved his bail application.

Justice Onyetenu granted the defendant bail in the sum of N20 million
and two sureties in like sum, one of whom must be a civil servant not
below grade level 14.

The case has been adjourned to February 26, 2019 for trial, and the
defendant remanded in prison custody pending when he meets the bail
conditions.