2 Nigerians arrested for global marriage scam
Published on January 26, 2013 by ·
Two Nigerians have been arrested by Thai police for running a global marriage scam, posing as US Marines in Afghanistan and preying on hundreds of widows and single women, after worming themselves into their hearts.
Bangkok Post reported online that the country’s Department of Special Investigation (DSI) arrested the two Nigerians alleged to have defrauded about 20 million baht($670,000) from scores of Thai women through a global marriage scam in which they pretended to be US marines.
The full report by Bangkok Post:
“The DSI said Benjamin Olakunle Owewole,(possibly Oyewole) 44, and Oladapo Awooyele, 35, had told their victims they were US marines deployed in Afghanistan and promised to marry them after they completed the early retirement process from military service.
“They asked the victims to wire them money to help pay the discharge processing fees. One of the women eventually became suspicious and informed the authorities.
“The Nigerian men were arrested with approximately 11 million baht($367,400) in cash in their possession. The DSI reported that at least 400 women all over the world had fallen prey to the fraudsters and about 20 million baht had been scammed from the Thai victims.
“According to DSI chief Tharit Pengdit, the suspects had approached their targets, usually single women aged 40 or older, many of them widowed or divorced, via online chatrooms and Facebook.

“The alleged swindlers elaborated their stories by having accomplices play different roles, such as sick family members, superiors and subordinates calling the victims. The women were duped into wiring funds into accounts in Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan.
“The Bureau of Foreign Affairs and Transnational Crime, working with the police Crime Suppression and Technology Crime Suppression divisions arrested the two suspects at a shopping mall in Nonthaburi province.
“At their hotel room in Bangkok investigators found US$370,000 in cash along with computers and cellphones used in the scam.
“DSI investigators believe the gang is running their operation in several countries, including Sweden, Malaysia and Singapore, to make it difficult for authorities to gather evidence against them.

http://pmnewsnigeria.com/2013/01/26/2-nigerians-arrested-for-global-marriage-scam/

Asian and European women madly find American Marines attractive . Even a million more women could have naively fallen into such a trap. Nigerians faking as Americans just to lay attractive blondes isn't new, but as an elaborate marriage scam is definitely another form of the infamous 419 .

Nigerians I hail o....
I wonder when u guys would stop embarassing us abroad.

Lol.
Na wa.

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And besides,when did they become 'Nigerian' men?.
I thought we identify criminals by their tribes on nairaland.

solomon111: And besides,when did they become 'Nigerian' men?.
I thought we identify criminals by their tribes on nairaland.

lol! gone are those days bro.we are all nigerians irrespective of ethnicity or religion.

solomon111: And besides,when did they become 'Nigerian' men?.
I thought we identify criminals by their tribes on nairaland.

Yes they are yorubas and nobody is bitching about that.so next you see a thread about ibos doing drugs as usual,don't cry foul ! Sure we will see one during the weekend.

berem: lol! gone are those days bro.we are all nigerians irrespective of ethnicity or religion.

To be honest.....we see tribes mentioned with criminality when the people are Igbo....then there will be pages and pages of people claiming tribe equals criminality.

When it involves non Igbos then ....."gone are the days"....lol

Lets tell the truth here.......lol

berem: lol! gone are those days bro.we are all nigerians irrespective of ethnicity or religion.

To be honest.....we see tribes mentioned with criminality when the people are Igbo....then there will be pages and pages of people claiming tribe equals criminality.

When it involves non Igbo's then ....."gone are the days"....lol

Lets tell the truth here, there is an OBVIOUS double standard.......lol