A High Court sitting in Ilorin, Kwara State has sentenced 20-year-old Udoh Sunday Okon to one-year imprisonment for defrauding an American, Kimberly, to the tune of $500 on Facebook.


The Ilorin Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, secured the conviction of Udoh for offenses bordering on Facebook lottery scam.



Udoh, an undergraduate who hails from Akwa Ibom, was prosecuted on a one-count charge, to which he pleaded guilty.

This was contained in a statement issued by the EFCC Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren, on Wednesday.

The charge reads, “That you, Udoh Sunday Okon (Christopher Wray), sometime in March 2021 at Ilorin, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did cheat by personation when you pretended to be one Christopher Wray a white male with +18315088635 as your WhatsApp business line and fraudulently deceived Kimberly, an American, to send $500.00 ( Five Hundred United States Dollars) worth of eBay gift card to you after you made him believe that he won $1,000,000.00 (One Million Dollars) Facebook lottery and you thereby committed an offense contrary to Section 321 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 324 of the Penal Code.”


Following his plea, Sesan Ola, counsel to the EFCC, prayed the court to convict the defendant and sentence him based on his plea and the evidence tendered before the court.


Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court, Ilorin pronounced the defendant guilty of the offense and sentenced him to a term of one year in prison.

However, the judge offered the convict a punishment of N200,000 (Two Hundred Thousand Naira Only) as an alternative.

In addition, the court ordered the forfeiture of N206, 000 draft raised as restitution by the convict and the iPhone which he used in perpetrating the crime to the Nigerian Government.
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IBO Amaka

fati2001:
IBO Amaka

Stop smoking expired weed and overnight ewedu and gbegri ......

Ok,you think these guys don't know what they're doing abi? I mean those scammers who hit their clients via biggerly

They certainly have plans and alternatives.....It's very simple...

Simply agree to your crime,do the time and come out and be free with some of the money you got from the scam without anyone bothering you anymore.

But 500$ too small na alaye

fati2001:
IBO Amaka

It's not difficult to spot a packaged fooool.

Ex convict for $500

Hmmm

All because of 500dols u go go flex for jail for one jail... I pray u come back with ur yansh intact Sha. This one no be igba amaka na igbo amala him be.

Davash222:

It's not difficult to spot a packaged fooool.

Davash222:
No state is peaceful in Nigeria. The words Peaceful and Nigeria are two parallel lines that can never meet.

Davash222:
It's easier to find Chilled bottled water in Hell fire than to find a faithful Nigerian girl. Cheating is in their gene. Only God will save them.

no go fuvk yourself, RAMLIKE nose.