Rasak Sadu, 30, a resident of Dublin’s Lohunda Downs, Clonsilla, admitted conspiring to commit fraud. Omowale Owalabi, 31, of Navan’s Kentswood Court, admitted to stealing. Samson Ajayi, 33, of Park Wood, Grangerath in the county of Meath, entered a guilty plea to three counts of money laundering.
Gardaí attached to the National Economic Crime Bureau, arrested the three Nigerians after the woman became suspicious of a man whom she had been messaging online.
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard the woman met a man calling himself Neil Turner on a dating site in November 2019 and He began to ask the woman for money to help him with his business.
According to testimony given in court, the con artists informed the woman that Turner had business dealings with oil and gas off the coast of Cork while utilizing the false profile. He also disclosed to the woman that he would soon inherit a sizable sum of money. The woman believed everything she was told.
She contacted Gardaí went she became suspicious and Using the email addresses and bank account information, investigators located the three accused and visited their residences. They discovered the usernames and passwords for Turner’s profile on a number of gadgets that was confiscated.
They also discovered messages explaining the distribution of the funds gathered in an email account connected to Neil Turner. The gadgets also had additional false internet profiles. Investigators also analyzed their bank accounts.
The court took into account their early admissions of guilt, cooperation, and statements of regret; as well as the absence of prior convictions, as mitigating considerations in the case.
Thereafter, the three men were sentenced to prison for their roles in the romantic scam; which involved stealing hundreds of thousands of euros from a 66-year-old woman over the course of six months.
Gardaí attached to the National Economic Crime Bureau, arrested the three Nigerians after the woman became suspicious of a man whom she had been messaging online.
Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard the woman met a man calling himself Neil Turner on a dating site in November 2019 and He began to ask the woman for money to help him with his business.
According to testimony given in court, the con artists informed the woman that Turner had business dealings with oil and gas off the coast of Cork while utilizing the false profile. He also disclosed to the woman that he would soon inherit a sizable sum of money. The woman believed everything she was told.
She contacted Gardaí went she became suspicious and Using the email addresses and bank account information, investigators located the three accused and visited their residences. They discovered the usernames and passwords for Turner’s profile on a number of gadgets that was confiscated.
They also discovered messages explaining the distribution of the funds gathered in an email account connected to Neil Turner. The gadgets also had additional false internet profiles. Investigators also analyzed their bank accounts.
The court took into account their early admissions of guilt, cooperation, and statements of regret; as well as the absence of prior convictions, as mitigating considerations in the case.
Thereafter, the three men were sentenced to prison for their roles in the romantic scam; which involved stealing hundreds of thousands of euros from a 66-year-old woman over the course of six months.
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Wicked boys
ReplyDeleteGood they were caught
ReplyDeleteAww..They scammed the woman by posing rich,Imagine if these poor men came clean,She would have still helped...or not.
ReplyDeleteYoung men have no business seeking financial help from a retired lady who can no longer work. People should unlearn entitlement and embrace a proper with ethic. There are millions of people making legitimate money on the same internet they chose to use to scam this poor woman.
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