A Nigerian resident faces charges that he set up an online dating profile using a photo of Montana's attorney general and falsified stories about overseas business problems to scam several women.

Felony charges against Kazeem Owonla were filed last month in Indiana, where one woman reported sending more than $100,000 to a man who represented himself as John Tony Hagan, an electrical engineer who was working in Egypt.

Owonla, 44, was arrested Wednesday when he got off an airplane in Atlanta and waived extradition to Indiana Thursday during a hearing in Clayton County Magistrate Court. Clayton County records did not indicate if Owonla has an attorney.

His bond in Indiana is set at $150,000 cash, enough to cover the women's losses, Kosciusko County prosecutors said.

The Indiana woman who first complained said she met "Hagan" online in January 2014 and by the next month he was asking her for money.

The woman said Hagen told her he needed money to replace his stolen tools. She said she sent him $5,600. The woman also responded to requests for $12,000 to pay his workers and for $25,000 to replace money that was supposedly stolen when his interpreter was stabbed after they made a bank withdrawal. In June, the woman provided investigators with receipts showing she wired or made bank transfers totaling more than $100,000 to the man she believed was Hagan, court records said.

"It got pretty intense fairly quickly," the woman told WNDU-TV in July on the condition the station not use her name because she was embarrassed that she fell for the scam. "Lots of passion and attention."

A deputy found the bank transfers from the woman were ending up in an account owned by Owonla, who was in the U.S. on a visitor's visa last year.

The investigation also turned up a $1,550 bank transfer form an Ohio woman who told a similar story. She met a man online who identified himself as Henry Tesone, an electrical engineer in South Africa who was headed to Egypt to work. He also used stolen tools and other similar reasons to get the Ohio woman to send him a total of $11,590.

The deputy's investigation turned up a third bank transfer of nearly $8,200 from a woman who may be another victim. He is still trying to locate her.

The photo used on the Hagan profile was taken from Montana Attorney General Tim Fox's campaign website without his permission.

In August, Fox's spokesman, John Barnes, said the attorney general was upset his image was used in the same. He noted the con artist chose the photo of someone who oversees consumer protection and warns citizens of scams.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/1...n_6154384.html

*yawns*

chai... this old man too na scammer #smh

My people from south west with their claw face never disapoint whenever it comes to given nigeria a bitter bad name

Oyibo women- falling for scam by Nigerians since independence day.

chai! these naija guys don finish person! bad boys can't believe oyibo women are this foolish! no offense, but no naija babe go send money give u

Na wa o
When will these people stop destroying Nigera's image?

He represented himself picture wise to be Montana's attorney general
Didn't they ever speak on the phone ?
Couldn't the woman hear the accent and that he said Ouse instead of House and that he couldn't be oyibo
How can these women be so dumb

This case could end up in a Federal District Court because the amount in controversy exceeds $70,000; and the man is a foreigner.

Anyway, he could be in jail for a couple of years.

Why oyibo women like Nigerian men like this na? lol


the nigga looks like a politician already

if only he had used owokekere as a name, lord have mercy. . . . . . . . . ..

this lady has my sympathy, nigerian men lets stop all this type of thing nah. . . . . . . .

which tribe is he from
just asking

ofiafuluego:
which tribe is he from
just asking

He is from Nigerian tribe

Yo-robber...



Why why why why?

Why have you people choose to tarnish our image outside this country?


#sad

What is the meaning of owonla

Owo is money,I know that bit
What is nla

Oment7:
Yo-robber...



Why why why why?

Why have you people choose to tarnish our image outside this country?


#sad

look atew

Lazy folks who go about duping people yet have the guts to criticise hardworking gentlemen from the land of rising sun. See his dirty amala stricken mouth

nla = huge or big
Big money.

I thought Okpara Winfrey opened American women's eye with that 'mugu' show she did about Nigerian scammers.
Sorry Ms. Victim.

babyosisi:
He represented himself picture wise to be Montana's attorney general
Didn't they ever speak on the phone ?
Couldn't the woman hear the accent and that he said Ouse instead of House and that he couldn't be oyibo
How can these women be so dumb

That has been the thing they are always dumb

Looking for things that aren't real

By the way how is DJOLA

Oment7:
Yo-robber...



Why why why why?

Why have you people choose to tarnish our image outside this country?


#sad

Stop hatting your people are also involved

babyosisi:
What is the meaning of owonla

Owo is money,I know that bit
What is nla

Owo = Money

Nla = Big

Owonla = Big Money

Most like an alias... Scammers rarely come up with their true names...

Nigerians and short-cuts.
Shame!

'Ewo oju OLE', 'Oloju wo oko'!!!

White women want adventure and Nigerian sharp bad guys capitalize on that to dupe them

That's how they keep spoiling the image of Nigeria abroad and then turn around to scream racism when white folks become naturally apprehensive around them . Not to mention making things more difficult for the hard working Nigerians and Africans

See the fat face of this criminal.
Tarnishing the hustle of legit Nigerians.