[size=14pt]Nigerian spam email conmen who cheated pensioner out of £245,000 are jailed[/size]
U.S. woman told she had won £5.7m jackpot on the fictitious 'Great British Lottery


Conmen: Joshua Obasuyi (left) and Julius Oweka.convinced American victims they had won a lottery and duped them into paying fees to release the winnings



Two fraudsters who convinced a pensioner she had won a £5.7m lottery jackpot before conning her out of her life-savings were jailed for a total of 50 months today.

Joshua Obasuyi, 49, and Julius Oweka, 48, were part of a Nigerian gang who tricked U.S. Professor Marie Lowery, 80, a retired lecturer at the University of Houston, Texas, into handing over £245,000.

She was strung along by the London-based conmen for nearly four years, after responding to a spam e-mail that told her she had won the jackpot in a prize draw.

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