The Kwara State Excessive Court docket presided over by Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar, has convicted and sentenced a 23-year-old man, Odeyemi Hammed Oluwaseun, to 1 12 months imprisonment for web fraud, impersonation, and acquiring by false pretenses.
The judgment was delivered following his responsible plea to a two-count cost introduced in opposition to him by the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC).
Oluwaseun, a self-proclaimed spiritualist from Oyo State, defrauded his victims by posing as an American-based feminine spiritualist named “Lord Hill” through e mail and Instagram.
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Utilizing deceitful schemes, he induced his victims to ship him present playing cards price $7,700, promising to make use of his “religious powers” to reconcile them with their estranged companions.
One of many costs learn: “That you just, Odeyemi Hammed Oluwaseun, someday in December 2023 in Ilorin, inside the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court docket, dishonestly induced one Bose to ship $3,200 price of present playing cards to you, with the impression that the identical can be used to diabolically affect her ex-husband to return and marry her, whilst you pretended and represented your self to be one Lord Hill, a feminine spiritualist.”
Prosecution counsel, Sesan Ola, offered proof together with Oluwaseun’s confessional statements, $1,000 recovered from him, an iPhone 15, and a 2008 Toyota Camry.
The courtroom sentenced Oluwaseun to a six-month suspended jail time period on every rely and ordered the forfeiture of the recovered gadgets to the federal authorities.
Justice Abdulgafar said that the EFCC had confirmed its case past an inexpensive doubt, emphasizing the necessity to deter others from participating in web fraud.
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