Last week, a Winnipeg judge sentenced Nigerian email scam artist Toluwalada Owolabi to 30 months in prison for tricking an unnamed Winnipeg physician into sending him $35,000, reports the Winnipeg Free Press.
Mr Owolabi pretended to be a woman dying of bone cancer whose family died in a car accident and left her $10 million, which she wanted to pass on to somebody to use "for good works," if the doctor -- a world-renowned malaria specialist, according to reports -- would pay out a small fee to help keep the money safe.
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Friday, 6 June, 2008
Nigerian email scammer jailed for Winnipeg doctor dupe
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I think the accounting on this other website presents the good doctor as " less of a dupe".... don't you?
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[You will have a renewed respect for the "over 80's" if you read H.W. Longfellow's " Moraturi Salutamus" :) ]
Google " Nigerian scams" and you will get an eyeful..... having said that..... let's not forget Ken Sole-Wiwa and his son Ken Sole-Wiwa Jr. ( who writes " beautifully" for the Globe and Mail from time to time).