A 67 year-old grandmother from Australia has been found dead in South
Africa where she travelled to meeta 28 year-old Nigerian she met on
an online dating site.
The woman, Jette Jacobs was found dead in a Johannesburg guest house
in February, two days after she met up with a man callinghimself Jesse
Orowo Omokoh.
According to AU News, the pair struck up an online relationship three
years ago. In 2010, Jacobs travelled to South Africa to meet him
before he proposed late last year. Over several years she sent over
$100,000 to him.
After he proposed, she wanted to settle in Nigeria but her children
had begged her to stay in Australia. Yahoo News reports that her
money, credit cards, laptop computer and jewellery were missing.
Omokoh was the last person to see Jacobs alive and told police he
found her body but he has since disappeared.
Although an empty pill bottle was found near her body and the
SouthAfrican police initially thought she had committed suicide, her
children believe she was murdered.
"Anybody who knew my mother would know that there is no way that she
would do that," her daughter told 6PR.
Her son, who wants to be identified only as Mr Jacobs, told Yahoo
News: "After losing dad, mum was feeling very lonely so shewent online
and went to one of the dating sites and this young man contacted her
and started to chat to her.
Mum, not realising what she was getting herself into, started talking
to this guy. This was about four years ago, and in that period of time
they'd been chatting quite regularly, then she decided to travel to
South Africa to meet him."
"We didn't want her to go, we tried to stop her but she pushed us away
and said we didn't know what we were talking about. We didn't
understand he was a true friend and not one of those scams,and she
really believed that she had someone that really loved her."
A joint operation between West Australian Police and Consumer
Protection tracks large amounts of money being sent from West
Australia to West African countries.A letter was sent to Jacobs
warning she might be a victim of fraud but it arrived shortly after
she had left Australia.
Detective Senior Constable Robert Martin, from the Major Fraud Squad,
says the circumstances surrounding her death are suspicious.
He told Yahoo News that the rising number of tragic occurences from
meeting a person online is alarmingly high. "My warning is that unless
you have met the person face-to-face you do not know what you are
dealing with when you are talkingto somebodyonline.
It is absolutely fraught with dangerand we would say don't sent money
to anybody that you have met on the computer. We also strongly urge
people not to travel overseas to meet someone they have met on the
computer."
The Police are still searching for Omokoh.

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