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A Nigerian conman funded a playboy lifestyle by cheating pensioners out of their life savings.

Godwin Nwaofor, 36, kept a 'suckers list' of potential victims to send bogus letters saying they had won the Australian Lottery.

The Nigerian national received around £1million from the scam and blew the money on luxury cars, gold jewelery and expensive champagne at top nightclubs in London.

The scam started with a bogus letter to a vulnerable pensioner telling them they had won the Australian Lottery.

Nwaofor was a ‘willing and enthusiastic lieutenant’ to the mastermind of the con, another Nigerian, Frank Onyechonam, who was nicknamed ‘Fizzy’ for his love of vintage champagne.

Onyeachonam was jailed eight years last year, after he was exposed as the chief player in the scam.

He drove a Maserati and fired bubbly corks across exclusive private members clubs as he lived a life of fantastic luxury on his victim’s life savings.

The scam started with a bogus letter to a vulnerable pensioner telling them they had won the Australian Lottery. The letters were sent by a ‘lottery agent’ targeting mainly American pensioners informing them they had won a life-changing prize and requesting a modest sum to release the funds.

Believing they had won, victims were hooked into paying fees to release their ‘winnings’ through an agent who would demand ‘activation fees’ to release their cash.

In some cases, dupes set up businesses in an attempt to receive their winnings and became unwitting money mules laundering cash from other victims.

Nwaofor, of Camberell Green, south London, was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud, converting criminal property, and acquisition of criminal property

Nwaofor, a father of two, regularly switched addresses to avoid being caught.

One victim, a 76-year-old woman, who believed she had won $1.85m, tried to track down Nwaofor after the FBI told her she had fallen victim to a scam.

She flew to the UK and went to the address she had for Nwaofor, but found that he had already moved on to another address.

Judge Richard Hone QC said the evidence in the case, at Central Criminal Court, against Nwaofor was ‘overwhelming’ and showed him to be a proven liar.

‘You have a tendency to be dishonest in your dealings with landlords, agencies, the police, HMRC, and car hire firms’, he said.

‘You also moved addresses regularly to ensure your whereabouts remained a mystery.’

Police identified 406 victims from two notebooks found at Onyeachonam’s Canary Wharf penthouse when he was arrested.

They seized Louis Vuitton shoes, Gucci handbags, a collection of expensive watches and dozens of designer shoes, as well as 5,000 pictures of Onyeachonam flaunting his wealth at exclusive upmarket venues including the Guvnor Bar in Docklands, east London.

One picture shows him showering a friend with champagne, in others he poses with scantily clad blondes or waves wads of £50 notes.

There was also evidence of extensive communication with Lagos resident Ese Orogun, nicknamed the ‘chairman’, who is thought to be the global mastermind of the fraud.

He lives in a private gated community, is a ‘celebrity’ in the Nigerian capital and drives multiple supercars, including a Maserati and a Porsche.

Detectives fear the scale of the fraud could even mushroom to £30million if all the details discovered in notebooks and emails can be traced to victims.

Nwaofor moved to the UK in January 2006 from Nigeria and soon married a German citizen.

He has two children with her, aged six and six-months-old.  

He broke down in tears as he was jailed for seven years this morning, but the judge said he did not believe the remorse was genuine.

‘Just as a crocodile sheds its tears while devouring its prey, so the copious weeping in court is not hypocritical remorse but tears of frustration that in spite of your careful concealment, you have been well and truly rumbled’, the judge told him.

‘This Australian lottery scam has brought penury and debt to your victims who were ruthlessly milked of their hard earned savings.’

Nwaofor will serve half his sentence in prison and the remaining part on licence and will also now face confiscation proceeds

The judge said although ten victims were traced by prosecutors as having fallen for Nwaofor’s scam, but that was probably the ‘tip of the iceberg’.

‘Vast sums of cash you used to fund a luxury lifestyle, with top of the range hire cars, large watches, gold jewellery, expensive nightclubs’, said the judge.

‘It shows you made the best part of £1m yourself.’

Culled From: dailymail.co.uk


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olaolulazio:
He's Yoruba!

Yea

Age is telling on him already.

Just here to check the names of the car snatchers. Like if you came to do the same.

See the kind of 2:1 graduates our educational system is breeding. Someone tell me the system isn't in shambles.

Timbuktu14:
Yes, she was a student of LCU and that LCU's football pitch. U sharp no b small. Her name is Josephine and she was a member of d explicit dance group.

Haha? U be person wei I know?

Is he a student of LCU?

Caracta:
Write a letter and give at least two weeks notice.

You'd lose 20% of interest accrued. If you remember the interest paid upfront, calculate 20% of it. That amount would be deducted from your principal.

Do you understand?

I'm not disputing this, I just need some clarifications, are you saying that the number of days the money had spent in "wherever" won't be taken into consideration? Cos if its like you stated, it means the buyer still gains 80% of his acrude interest after termination, whereas, I think he should loose instead. Or the 20% of his interest will be deducted from his total capital, hereby forfeiting the entire interest that was paid upfront?

Has it been sprayed? Kindly quote me

*If any found after inspection* means it has to be inspected with a microscope. Is d price negotiable?

Where is d car located? Am interested

First body or newly painted? What part of ibadan is it?

It will do you more good to secure the services of a good english teacher.

Emefiele na hausa man na.

ARKdiscloser7:
No Igbo name?
Out of 33 citizens of a country they make us believe we are one?

It is obvious and loud as that, that Buhari's govt is a clear war against the Igbos as earlier feared.

Why wont they allow the Igbos to leave then? Why!

Tommysport4ever@yahoo.com MTN

OMG, this looks abandoned, you mean human beings visit here.......front page pls

10 likes for president M. Buhari

feelamong:
I bidded 10.20% but lost out for 90days..

decided to dive into the FSL Bond Index fund at 13.75%

I will inform the house how it went after 90 days..

Which one is Bond Index FSL? How does it work? Theinterest rate seems good for me.

#

Hey guys!!!! I got 13,800 on 230k at 12 percent for 170 days(bank rate) today

feelamong:
why not buy in the secondary market if you really want to lock in ur funds for that long so badly now..

Is there any difference from d primary and secondary market asides the rate?

Back to her rightful position, you can do better

How is not having a car a deal breaker or turn off for ladies How does one begin to judge a man becoz he doesn't have a car?? I fail to understand.

Change the topic to "South-Easterners beg GEJ for forgiveness

Change the topic to "Easterners beg GEJ for forgiveness

Not when SE and SS are always at loggerhead with the north

Aw

as far as am concerned, this ay guy commited suicide. the indonesian government isnot to be blamed..his desperation is

Dhotseal:
No sir, the employer has a duty in law to compensate. If you read the Act you will understand that the employer is almost strictly liable for all work place accidents. He can keep his compassion to himself and compensate the guy already or he stands to lose a lot.

im able to talk about it because i have adequate knowledge about it. The employer is definitely going to compensate. but he hes not liable. From common law perspective.....if the workplace is safe, there's nothing wrong with the machine, the staff is competent (the employee is guilty of this if he doesnt have the right clearance to do the job, and safe system of working) if all these are in place. then the employer can go without paying a dime.;

elookoo:
Its cos of accident like this that the government enacted the employees compensation act that sets up the employees compensation scheme where every employee are insured against workplace injury.......i just hope his employer has signed up for the scheme, if they have then he gets compensated for the loss of the fingers.

Even with the act, the employee can only pay compensation on a compassionate ground. he's obviously not the right person that is supposed to fix the machine. it seems he just wanted to do it for the organization.

Royal155:
I AM NOT TERMINATING BUT JUST TO GIVE THEM NOTICE OF TERMINATION UPON MATURITY AND RE-INVESTING FOR A YEAR. THAT'S JUST IT. YOU KNOW I'M SUPPOSED TO GIVE TWO WEEKS NOTICE BEFORE MATURITY, SO THAT IS WHAT I INTEND TO DO

Pls answer the question "assuming you are terminating what and what would you have to do"