A United States citizen, Vonapolouis Moss, has explained to
the Kwara State Police Command how she was tricked into travelling to Nigeria by
Joshua Awoyele, a 23-year-old suspected Internet fraudster widely known as
“yahoo boy”.
Moss of 2962, W 64th Court, Merrillville, Indiana 46410, USA
said she was lured into the country on January 9, 2023, by the suspect.
She further added that she met him on TikTok, a social media
platform, and he claimed to be an American by the name of Howard Adams
currently working in Nigeria.
Narrating the incident, the state police command said the
suspected fraudster identified as Joshua Awoleye, a Higher National Diploma
student of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin allegedly lured the foreigner
and swindled her of the sum of $1000 when she came to Nigeria.
Parading the suspect at the police headquarters in Ilorin on
Friday, the Commissioner of Police, Paul Odama, said that Awoleye of Sabo-Oke
Road, Ilorin lodged Moss in a hotel and defrauded her.
According to the CP, “On January 12, 2023, at about 1200
hours, based on actionable intelligence, operatives of the SCID at the Kwara
State Police Command arrested one Awoleye Joshua Oluwatofunmi, “male” of
Sabo-Oke Road, Ilorin, within the premises of a hotel along Flower Garden Road,
Ilorin, in company with one Vonapolouis Moss, an American citizen.
“A preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect, who
is an Internet fraudster known as Yahoo Boy, presented himself to the victim on
TikTok, a social media platform, as an American by the name of Howard Adams and
ripped her off for about 1,000 USD.
“The suspect later took a step further by luring the victim
to fly into Nigeria on January 9, 2023, through the Murtala Mohammed
International Airport in Lagos, after which she flew into Ilorin the next day
and was received by the suspect.
“The suspect also deceitfully took an unspecified amount of
USD from the victim before she was rescued by police operatives.
“The necessary authorities have been contacted for
appropriate action,” he said.
Odama added that the victim had been moved into secure
custody by the state police command pending her return trip to the USA.
Speaking in an interview with newsmen, Vonapoloius said that
she arrived in the country on Monday night and moved from Lagos to Ilorin on
Tuesday morning.
“We met on social media and he invited me to visit Nigeria
but when I came, he took me to the Bureau de Change to change my money to
Nigerian currency and he also took me to Shoprite. When the money on me
finished, he told me to tell my people to send more.”
The foreigner who said that she liked Nigeria, however, said
that she would like to return to the US.
“I like Nigeria and I would like to come back but what I
want now is to go back to America,” she said.
The Police Commissioner said that although Joshua confessed,
he would not be handed to the Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission but would be investigated by the police and charged to court after a
thorough investigation of his alleged crime.
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