Crime
Abuja big boy jailed for posing as a prostitute to defraud victims
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abuja Zonal Command on Thursday, November 3, secured the conviction Emmanuel Adeyi before Justice I. Mohammed of the FCT High Court Gwagwalada-Abuja on an internet related fraud charge.
The one count charge indicates that Adeyi committed the offence sometime in 2021 at Abuja when he “pretended to be a white woman named Sally, a prostit¥te who resides in the United States of America through your Reddit application, and under the assumed character obtained the sum of $600 (Six Hundred United States Dollars) from your victims, committed the offence of cheating by personation.” The offence is contrary to Section 321 of the Penal Code Law (Cap. 89 Laws of Northern Nigeria) and punishable under Section 324 of the same Law.
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