A 75-year-old female Dutch national,
Jeanet De Jonge, has lost €200,000 to a 31-year-old Nigerian, Michael
Adio in a romance scam.
It was gathered that Adio, who had been
arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, pretended to
be an American citizen, making it easy for Jonge to fall for him.
The EFCC, which described Adio as a confidence trickster, revealed that the man was an indigene of the Owu area of Ogun State.
Explaining how the suspect, perpetrated
the act, the EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, said the victim and the
suspect met on a dating site and started a relationship.