A 23-year-old Nigerian suspected of scamming foreigners over the Internet who then gave most of the proceeds as tithes to a Lagos church has been arrested, the anti-graft agency EFCC said last week.??According to the SAPA news agency, Okoro Osagie, a university drop-out, allegedly defrauded several Germans and Americans of almost $97 000 before he was arrested on October 23, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said in a statement.??
“More than 80 percent of the proceeds of his heist were given to his church… as tithes and offerings,” it said.?
When the Lagos-based church expressed concern over his generous donations, considering his age, he said that his income was legitimate, the statement added.??One of his victims, a woman, told bank officials through which the fraudster allegedly received the money that she met Osagie over the Internet and that she has been sending money “because he claims that he wanted to set up a business”.??
Osagie, who allegedly introduced himself to his victims as Jerry Finger, a British- American expatriate executing a project in Nigeria, promised them that he would refund them as soon as he was paid for his work.??Osagie would soon be charged in court, EFCC said.
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