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Naija Girl Scam Oyinbo Men £100000 For Love by Neyomickey1: 5:48pm On Jun 13, 2017
A young woman who tricked a string of lonely hearts into sending her more than £100,000 in an online dating scam is facing jail.

Grace Akintaro, 24, posed as a woman called Amanda Jenson and chatted online to seven men who believed they may have found love.

She convinced her victims to send money for travel and expenses, but she then gave excuses for pulling out of face-to-face meetings.
At Woolwich crown court yesterday, Akintaro, from Greenwich, pleaded guilty to seven counts of fraud by false representation on the first day of her trial.

She claimed the dating scam was masterminded by someone else, telling the court: “I was naive and used by this person I was in love with.”

Co-defendant Victoria Nwogu, 22, also from Greenwich, was cleared of the frauds but appeared in the dock with Akintaro where she admitted laundering £3,490 from the scam.

Judge Nicholas Heathcote Williams QC freed the women on bail until sentencing on June 20, but told Akintaro: “These were romance frauds and the fact I am ordering a pre-sentence report is no indication as to the sentence. There is a real prospect she will go to prison.”

Akintaro carried out the scam between August 2014 and December 2015, chatting extensively online to the victims and talked to at least two of the men by telephone.
The judge said the men had suffered “psychologically and financially” once they discovered they had been conned. “They were expecting to get their money back, they thought they were loaning the money,” he said.

Akintaro made at least 16 trips to the bank to withdraw money sent by the men, the court heard, raking in a total of £104,962.

However, the court heard she only had a £5,000 Renault Clio and a few hundred pounds left, claiming the rest of money was passed on to others in the scheme.

“There would have to be a female involved and that was Miss Akintaro,” said prosecutor Kevin Dent. “She may not have been at the top of this, but played a role over a period of time.”

The prosecution offered no evidence against Nwogu.
Re: Naija Girl Scam Oyinbo Men £100000 For Love by Guitary(m): 5:49pm On Jun 13, 2017
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Re: Naija Girl Scam Oyinbo Men £100000 For Love by joladoyin(m): 6:10pm On Jun 13, 2017
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Re: Naija Girl Scam Oyinbo Men £100000 For Love by tillaman(m): 9:27am On Jun 14, 2017
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Re: Naija Girl Scam Oyinbo Men £100000 For Love by DanielLee5: 5:12am On Jul 03, 2017
Omg she's a queen of dating scammers lol. I know not only Nigerian girls but guys also are hunting for money, at least I heard many stories like that from my American friends. Russian and slavic girls are famous with the facts of scamming, too, here is a huge database with girls like this http://www.antiarnaques.org/en/verification-identity-russian-women.htm .

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