A US-based Nigerian man, Joseph Nantomah, claims to have
prevented an American woman from getting defrauded of $32,000.
In a video uploaded to his @theblackmentor_’s Instagram page
on Wednesday, Nantomah, standing by the woman whom he identified as “Leen”, explained
how he prevented a Nigerian cyber-crime syndicate from extorting her.
Nantomah claimed that the cyber-fraudsters had tricked Keen
into transferring $32,000 to his business account, with the mind that he would
send them the money.
He said that he had involved the police and embarked on a three-hour drive from Wisconsin to Indiana in a bid to locate Keen and help return her money.
It appears that Nantomah was intended to serve as a
“picker,” a term for strategic middle-men contacts for “Yahoo boys”, who are
sometimes residents in the United States or other countries where victims
reside. In many cases, pickers could be unaware of their role in the rip-off
scheme until they receive money in their bank account.
When asked by one Instagram user how the scammers had gotten
hold of his business account, Nantomah said, “They pretended they wanted to do
business with my Nigerian business partner who gave it to them without my
consent”.
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