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"Johnson Chrome was born Adekunle Johnson Omitiran on January 31, 1980, in the Oshodi slums of Lagos, Nigeria. His father, Gbadebo, was a travelling businessman from southwestern Nigeria.

When Chrome was a boy, Gbadebo left Chrome’s mother, a Fulani woman from Nigeria’s north, and at one point allegedly had as many as six wives. Gbadebo studied at the University of Exeter in the U.K. and later found his way to Toronto. Chrome’s mother was left to raise him and his brother and stepbrother, with the help of her father, who took the family in. Chrome didn’t respond to interview requests for this story, but sources in Nigeria say he spent much of his childhood on the streets, getting shooed away from the local markets by vendors, who didn’t want a poor kid hanging around. According to one childhood friend, he wasn’t a troublemaker and had no criminal record. He later attended Lagos State University, and in 2003, when he was 23, his father brought him to Toronto.

Chrome enrolled at York University, where he studied economics and lived modestly in a basement apartment near campus. Less than a year later, police believe, he entered the world of fraud. In January 2004, Canada customs intercepted a suspicious parcel destined for Chrome’s apartment.

The package had come from Nigeria, and it was heavy enough to qualify for inspection. Inside, officials discovered 36 envelopes addressed to various people in the U.S., each containing a counterfeit cheque for roughly $10,000. The intended recipients had placed ads online selling various items; fraudsters, posing as brokers, wrote letters explaining they wanted to buy the item, but their buyers had already written a cheque for more than the asking price.

Would the recipient be so kind as to deposit it and wire back the difference? In most instances of the scam, the intended target is skeptical and ignores the letter, but inevitably, some obey the enclosed instructions.

By the time the bank catches on and cancels the transaction, the account holder is on the hook and the scammer is in the wind, a few thousand dollars richer.

These kinds of frauds are so popular in Nigeria that they’re now known globally as 419 scams, which refers to the section of Nigeria’s criminal code pertaining to fraud. Police claim that Chrome’s job was to mail the letters from Canada, bypassing the suspicions of U.S. Postal Service officials."

Source: https://torontolife.com/city/crime/name-johnson-chrome-hes-citys-wanted-identity-thief/

His personal problem, but the International image of Nigeria keeps been tarnished everyday, why blurring the oyinbo's face in the 3rd pics?

Its called come and buy
Craigslist.
Cashier check.
Mostly done by afonjas both in ibadan and lagos

Lalasticlala, seun, obynoscopy

The whites are exploiting our natural resources
every single seconds. As much as I don't support this guys,am still waiting for details information about this
white fooling us everyday.
Tell us the history of the USA guy that robs our brothers of their hard earned money,over green card fraud.

Take your time to tell us more about the big thieve,the politicians,that have left out young men in search of same fun,same swags. The pure water seller with 450K$ in her account.

We need more information and mind you,you might be our next minister of informations.

Don't mean no disrespect though.

am oye operamini

Slimmy2005......Your thread don enter FP.

Hmmmmmm

This same Guy? Thought they caught him some months ago.

Watch all these tribalists invade this thread and insult each other. Instead of coming together to condemn the act, you'll see them tagging it to a certain tribe.


What's you guys problem?

Crime is Crime irrespective of whoever commits it!

2. Checkers Association of

Corn do land oo

Oluwa

Too bad

afonja

•••na the parental combination dey shock me!
I must confess, na fresh boy!

Dirty hustle...

na wao... dis people self

My Afonja people I hail o salutations

A gonna boy ni sha

VickyRotex:
This same Guy? Thought they caught him some months ago.

I thought so

congrats

Oya now, make the war begin!

Adekunle from Oshodi Lagos sef

If i say N, you say CAN, na you sabi...

Hmmm

AFONJAS we hail thee

Ok

So he is Afonja, wonderful

Scam is bad

Maybe I should say cool




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Kemyisang:
I thought so

Yea there was a video of him and some other guys circulating then. I know they said one of them was missing. But I thought The Adekunle guy was among the one's caught.
These guys just keep tarnishing our image.