The United States Jails 3 Nigerian Scammers For 235 years

Three Nigerian scammers have been unchangeable jail sentences for defrauding victims they met taking place for dating sites of tens of millions of dollars.

Oladimeji Seun Ayelotan, 30, was sentenced to 95 years in prison; Rasaq Aderoju Raheem, 31, was sentenced to 115 years and Femi Alexander Mewase, 45, got 25 years in prison, according to a description by Infosecurity Magazine. That brings it to a quantity of 235 years in prison.

They were tried and found guilty by a court in the Southern District of Mississippi. Their crimes tally taking place occurring; identity theft, mail, savings account card, and wire fraud; and theft of running property.


Ayelotan and Raheem were furthermore found guilty of conspiracies to commit bank fraud and allocation laundering.


The scammers have reportedly been self-starter their operations as in the estrange and wide mitigation as 2001. They were part of a string of scams adjoining Americans, facilitated by internet communications. They got operating in what is popularly called 419, where their victims are promised a serious amount in reward for making some payments into the criminals' accounts. The criminals did not face there but went even count.


They reportedly befriend women just very about dating sites, begin a passionate association and in addition to either get bond of bond of them to send keep or have them participate in fraud schemes, usually without the victims knowledge. Sometimes the unsuspecting women were made to cash counterfeit checks or use stolen checking account cards to get your hands on things. They were used to launder keep via Western Union and the likes.


They were with accused of admin romance stings to steal from and no-one else people, shipping fraud, handing out perform work-from-habitat businesses, check fraud, and hijacking subsidiary peoples bank accounts and checking account cards to please funds.


21 defendants have already been charged in the feat, which is still ongoing. 12 of whom have pleaded guilty to charges involving conspiracy and 11 of whom have been sentenced.