Court jails undergraduate for scamming white lover

A Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja on Thursday jailed a 26-year-old undergraduate of Cairo University, Egypt, Rilwan Adedigba, for 30 months over cybercrime.

Adedigba’s conviction came after he had confessed to defrauding an American lady, Zen Cariboso, of $1,100.

Justice Kudirat Jose, who gave the judgement, further made an order for the convict to make restitution to the victim by refunding the stolen $1,100.

Adedigba was also to forfeit to the Federal Government a car he had acquired with the proceeds of the illegal venture.

The convict was brought before the court on five counts bordering on cyber fraud.

Upon his re-arraignment, he had pleaded guilty to all the counts and entered a plea bargain with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

Reviewing the facts of the case in court, the EFCC counsel, Mrs. Olubunmi Bosede, said Adedigba committed the offences on January 30 in Lagos.

Bosede said the convict had lied to the white lady that he was one Murphy Paul, a white American living in Nigeria, who was in love with her.

She said Adedigba used the love scam to obtain the stolen sum from the American.

According to her, Adedigba, by his act, violated sections 390 and 318 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria 2011.

Justice Jose consequently pronounced the sentence. The judge said the sentence would run concurrently beginning from June 8, when the convict was arrested.

Justice Jose further ordered that Adedigba must sign an undertaken with the EFCC that he would be of good behaviour upon his release from prison.