{"id":102500,"date":"2023-01-14T19:55:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T18:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=102500"},"modified":"2023-01-14T19:55:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T18:55:35","slug":"police-rescue-us-female-citizen-lured-to-nigeria-by-suspected-internet-fraudster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/police-rescue-us-female-citizen-lured-to-nigeria-by-suspected-internet-fraudster\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Rescue US Female Citizen Lured To Nigeria By Suspected Internet Fraudster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">An American female citizen, Vonapolouis Moss, has been rescued by the Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Police in Ilorin, the state capital, after being allegedly swindled by a 23-year-old suspected internet fraudster.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nSpeaking with journalists in Ilorin on Friday, the state commissioner of Police, Paul Odama, gave the name of the suspect as Awoleye Joshua Oluwatofunmi \u201cmale\u201d 23 years old, of Sabo-Oke Road, Ilorin.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nVonapolouis Moss of 2962, W 64th Court, Merrillville, Indiana 46410, USA, was allegedly lured into the country on January 9, 2023, by the suspect, said to be an internet fraudster and ripped her off thousands of dollars.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cOn 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, \u201cmale\u201d of Sabo-Oke Road, Ilorin, within the premises of an hotel along Flower Garden Road, Ilorin, in company with one Vonapolouis Moss, \u201cfemale\u201d an American citizen.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cA 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.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cThe 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.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n&#8220;The suspect also deceitfully took an unspecified amount of USD from the victim before she was rescued by police operatives.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n\u201cThe necessary authorities have been contacted for appropriate action.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u00a0Meanwhile, the rescued victim has been moved into secure custody by the State Police command pending her return trip to the USA.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An American female citizen, Vonapolouis Moss, has been rescued by the Kwara State Command of the Nigeria Police in Ilorin, the state capital, after being allegedly swindled by a 23-year-old&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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