{"id":121505,"date":"2025-08-19T18:46:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=121505"},"modified":"2025-08-19T18:46:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:46:25","slug":"court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Jails Internet Fraudster for Scamming American Actress\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Lizzy Chirkpi<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Justice M.J. Zubairu of the Kaduna State High Court has sentenced an internet fraudster, Muhammad Kabiru, to two years in prison for impersonating American actress, Jennifer Aniston in an online romance scam.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The conviction followed Kabiru\u2019s arraignment by the Kaduna Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a one-count charge bordering on criminal impersonation.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The charge sheet read, \u201cThat you Muhammad Kabiru, (a.k.a Jennifer Aniston) sometime in July, 2025, in Kaduna within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, committed an offence to wit: falsely presented yourself as Jennifer Aniston (a citizen of United States of America) to several unsuspecting victims via &#8216;Telegram&#8217; chat (an online social media application) in a bid to lure them into love scam, which pretence you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 142(1) of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law, 2017.\u201d<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kabiru pleaded guilty to the charge.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following his plea, prosecution counsel M.U. Gadaka urged the court to convict and sentence him in accordance with the law.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Justice Zubairu subsequently sentenced Kabiru to two years in prison with an option of a \u20a6200,000 fine. The court also ordered the forfeiture of his iPhone 14 Pro to the Federal Government.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The convict was among suspects arrested by EFCC operatives along Governor Road in Kaduna metropolis, after intelligence reports linked them to a syndicate involved in internet fraud.<\/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>By Lizzy Chirkpi Justice M.J. Zubairu of the Kaduna State High Court has sentenced an internet fraudster, Muhammad Kabiru, to two years in prison for impersonating American actress, Jennifer Aniston&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":105046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Court Jails Internet Fraudster for Scamming American Actress\u00a0 - Pointblank News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Court Jails Internet Fraudster for Scamming American Actress\u00a0 - Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Lizzy Chirkpi Justice M.J. Zubairu of the Kaduna State High Court has sentenced an internet fraudster, Muhammad Kabiru, to two years in prison for impersonating American actress, Jennifer Aniston&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pointblank News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-08-19T17:46:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Court-of-Appeal-450x300-1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"450\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Our Reporter\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"headline\":\"Court Jails Internet Fraudster for Scamming American Actress\u00a0\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-19T17:46:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/\"},\"wordCount\":244,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Court-of-Appeal-450x300-1.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Other News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/\",\"name\":\"Court Jails Internet Fraudster for Scamming American Actress\u00a0 - Pointblank News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Court-of-Appeal-450x300-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-08-19T17:46:25+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Court-of-Appeal-450x300-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Court-of-Appeal-450x300-1.jpg\",\"width\":450,\"height\":300},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Court Jails Internet Fraudster for Scamming American Actress\u00a0\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/\",\"name\":\"Pointblank News\",\"description\":\"Just the news\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c\",\"name\":\"Our Reporter\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Our Reporter\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Court Jails Internet Fraudster for Scamming American Actress\u00a0 - Pointblank News","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Court Jails Internet Fraudster for Scamming American Actress\u00a0 - Pointblank News","og_description":"By Lizzy Chirkpi Justice M.J. Zubairu of the Kaduna State High Court has sentenced an internet fraudster, Muhammad Kabiru, to two years in prison for impersonating American actress, Jennifer Aniston&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/","og_site_name":"Pointblank News","article_published_time":"2025-08-19T17:46:25+00:00","og_image":[{"width":450,"height":300,"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Court-of-Appeal-450x300-1.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Our Reporter","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Our Reporter","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/"},"author":{"name":"Our Reporter","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"headline":"Court Jails Internet Fraudster for Scamming American Actress\u00a0","datePublished":"2025-08-19T17:46:25+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/"},"wordCount":244,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Court-of-Appeal-450x300-1.jpg","articleSection":["Other News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/","name":"Court Jails Internet Fraudster for Scamming American Actress\u00a0 - Pointblank News","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Court-of-Appeal-450x300-1.jpg","datePublished":"2025-08-19T17:46:25+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Court-of-Appeal-450x300-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Court-of-Appeal-450x300-1.jpg","width":450,"height":300},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/other-news\/court-jails-internet-fraudster-for-scamming-american-actress\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Court Jails Internet Fraudster for Scamming American Actress\u00a0"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#website","url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/","name":"Pointblank News","description":"Just the news","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/ba61acbe7e8967bcf3f3ba603d9db23c","name":"Our Reporter","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/83b3820ef93d502ae3a617b2c881ca42?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Our Reporter"},"url":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121506,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121505\/revisions\/121506"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}