Photos: Two Nigerian fraudsters who duped a woman out of £1.6m sentenced to prison in London

Some of us should remember the story of this two guys I posted some time ago well they have faced the ruts sha

Two Nigerian men who duped a woman out of
£1.6 million in a sophisticated romance scam
were today, Friday, January 8, jailed for a total of
5-and-a-half years at Basildon Crown Court.
Ife Ojo, 31, (left) of Hammonds Drive,
Peterborough in Cambridgeshire was jailed for 34
months for conspiracy to defraud. His accomplice
Olusegun Agbaje (right), 43, of Kershaw Close,
Hornchurch in Essex was jailed for 32 months for
conspiracy to defraud.
Detective Chief Inspector Gary Miles, of FALCON -
the Met’s specialist Cyber Crime and Fraud Unit,
said:
"Today’s sentencing recognises the devastating
impact this kind of fraud has on its victims. I
would like to pay tribute to the victim in this case
who provided evidence which was crucial in
securing two guilty pleas in this case.
"The financial and emotional impact to the victim
has been huge. Many victims borrow money from
friends and family to pay the suspects. Victims
typically feel embarrassed and ashamed when
they realise they have been duped, so they often
don't report what has happened to them or even
confide in a friend."
In January 2015, a woman in her 40s, from
Hillingdon, reported to Action Fraud that she had
been a victim of fraud. The case was referred the
Met's cyber crime and fraud team, FALCON.
The victim told police that in February 2014 she
met a man calling himself Christian Anderson on
a dating site. After a few weeks, they met in
person. He told her that he was an engineer
working in the oil industry, that he was divorced
and had a daughter, and that his father and sister
died of cancer.
After a few weeks, he told her that he loved her.
He said he was having a difficult time working on
a project in Benin, Africa. He said that he wanted
to come home to be with her but first he needed
some specialist machinery so he could finish the
project. He asked her for a loan to pay import
duty for the machinery.
She paid over £30,000 into the business account
of his supposed personal assistant, a man
allegedly called Brandon Platt, but Anderson then
requested more cash, ranging from £25,000 for a
police fine, to thousands of pounds to free up
inheritance money left by his mother, who lived in
Cape Town.
He told her that he wanted to use the inheritance
money to set up a life with the victim. Fees for
freeing up the inheritance money included costs
for holding it in a vault in Amsterdam and
$170,000 to pay for a non-existent "anti-terrorist
certificate" so that the money could be deposited
at a bank.
The victim had been convinced that they would
live together, and had been looking for a home for
them to buy. She met with someone claiming to
be Anderson's lawyer, and even travelled to an
office in Amsterdam to meet a man calling
himself Dr Spencer, who was supposedly
responsible for holding the money in a vault.
Between March and December 2014, the victim
paid £1.6million into numerous bank accounts.
The money was subsequently transferred into
various personal accounts, including £35,000 to
the bank accounts of Ife Ojo and Olusegun
Agbaje. The victim doubted the authenticity of
Anderson's stories on numerous occasions but
every time she asked for proof he sent false
documentation or made up excuses for why he
could not send her evidence.
FALCON carried out a financial investigation.
They identified Agbaje as one of the recipients of
the victim's money and went to his home address
where they found him with Ojo. Both were
arrested and their homes searched. At Ojo's
home, they found a laptop containing records of
the victim's conversation with Anderson, a
memento book seemingly sent to Anderson by
another victim and a copy of the book 'The
Game'.
FALCON established that they had received
£35,000 of the victim's cash and charged them.
In September 2015, Ojo, a student from
Peterborough and Agbaje, an administrative
assistant of Hornchurch both pleaded guilty to
conspiracy to defraud at Basildon Crown Court.
Detectives are continuing their enquiries as they
seek other members of the gang and try to
identify any other victims.