5 suspected internet fraudsters who posed as U.S soldiers to scam
American women have been arrested by men of Oyo State Joint Security
Task Force, 'Operation Burst'.
The suspects, Oyewole Oyeleye
Olatunji (28), Adeniran Adeyinka Yusuf (29), Samuel Olumide Adeola
(29), Israel Adeola (24) and Olorunyemi Savior Imonah (24) were
arrested March 13, 2017 during a routine surveillance at Ladoke
Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Ogbomosho.
The suspects, who were handed over to the Ibadan
Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on
Monday, March 20th, were thereafter interrogated at the Operation Burst
headquarters, Agodi where they confessed to have defrauded some
American women through various romance scam using different dating
sites. They also confessed to have obtained different sums from their
victims.
At the point of arrest, four HP Laptops, three Nokia
phones, four I phones, one Infinix Hot Note Phone, a Flash Drive and
four Military camouflage T-shirts were recovered from them.
Investigations have also revealed that the suspects have various
incriminating documents in their Laptops and Phones. They were posing
on the dating sites as American Soldiers and using different identities
to defraud unsuspecting American Ladies.
Oyewole confessed to
have been posing as Billy Philip, Johnson Moron and Montegro
respectively. According to him, he collected itune cards from one
Stephanie and has been using the card to chat with Holly Donis, Dona
Rissmiller and Mona Venziano among others who were also Americans.
Adeniran also posed as Cheryl Ann and Cindy Grant on Facebook and
engaged unsuspecting ladies in dating. He had also used the medium to
defraud and obtain Dollars from one Cherly Chambers.
Samuel has
been posing as Gome, Rundell, and Klaus. He confessed to have collected
itune card and different sums of dollars from Linda and Patricia on a
dating site.
Israel had online affairs with Jeannie Mae Sherman
and obtained different sums running into several thousands of dollars
and itune cards from her and another One Thousand, Two Hundred and
Fifty One Dollars itune cards from Lritz Ortiz. While Olorunyemi using
the names Terry Elizabeth and Bunt Janice Muriel had also swindled
unsuspecting victims to the tune of Two Hundred Dollars and Three
Hundred Dollars itune cards.
The suspects will be charged to court as soon as investigation is completed.