A 75-year-old female Dutch national, Jeanet De Jonge, has lost €200,000 to a 31-year-old Nigerian, Michael Adio in a romance scam.It was gathered that Adio, who had been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, pretended to be an American citizen, making it easy for Jonge to fall for him.
The EFCC, which described Adio as a confidence trickster, revealed that the man was an indigene of the Owu area of Ogun State.
Explaining how the suspect, perpetrated the act, the EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, said the victim and the suspect met on a dating site and started a relationship.
Uwujaren said,
“Adio met the victim on the ‘Net log’ dating site and pretended to be a 41-year-old American