Are they even Nigerian? And does anyone ever fall for them? We now have answers to all of those questions, as Pennsylvania law enforcement has captured a 100 per cent authentic Nigerian scammer!
His name is Maxwell Gbogboade, and his mark was a 64-year-old man whom he met on a dating service. Gbogboade posed as a woman from Nigeria named Mary Douglas, who needed “money to go to a movie shoot in Africa”. After that, she promised him, she’d move to the US to be his girlfriend.
The man attempted to withdraw $US46,000 from the bank for his Nigerian internet girlfriend, whereupon a good samaritan (the story doesn’t specify who) smelled a rat and contacted the police. After tracing some emails back to Nigeria, a sting was set, and Gbogboade was arrested in the lobby of the Philadelphia Airport Marriot posing as a courier.
He’s being held on $US750,000 bail and being charted with two counts of theft by deception through false impression. As far as the mugshot goes – well, that’s pretty much exactly what I expected a Nigerian scam artist to look like. No twist endings here! [WFMZ, photo via Hatfield DP]
Republished from Gawker
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