Joseph Akeredolu, a 48-year-old Nigerian has been arrested in India for duping a diamond broker from south Mumbai of Rs 1.16 crore or $217,000.
According to Indian police, Akeredolu is part of a gang that creates fake accounts on social media lures people through the accounts and then dupes them under the pretext of sending gifts.
Indian Express reports that the gang approached the diamond broker, who resides in Girgaon and has an office at Bharat Diamond Bourse in BKC, through one of the fake accounts on Instagram on October 10, 2020.
The police said that Akeredolu created a profile under the name of a non-existing woman, Alex Zendra and claimed to be a captain at a ship in the UK.
“We started chatting on WhatsApp and after a few days, Zendra told me that she loves me and wanted to marry me. She aspired to start a business with me in Mumbai…
“On October 17, she sent me a video in which she showed branded shoes, gold chains, watches and US dollars and said that she is sending them for me,” the broker said in his statement to the police.
Wolfgang Roth – you are always catching the right one. These people are damaging the name Nigeria too much. I got to Nigeria 10 years ago by some scammers, of course headed by a female in the front and a guy like him in the back, got married to an Ilaje woman, for everybody I an oyinbo, even for the Mayor of Ife, calling me his friend. My sister in law said once to me. She is living in a corrupt country, her mother is corrupt, thus she is corrupt, too. I added, so you are growing up your children in a corrupt way, that they are getting corrupt. That’s the fortune and future of Nigeria