Undergraduate defrauds 7 ladies on Facebook

Ademola Adebayo, a 26-year-old 400-Level student of Computer Science, has been arrested by the police in Lagos State, for allegedly defrauding seven ladies he met on Facebook, Punchng reports.

He allegedly lured the ladies by uploading some rich pictures on Facebook, and asking his victims to meet him at a location, usually a hotel on the pretext that he had deals for them. When they show up, he would dispose them of their valuables.

He worked with an accomplice, 35-year-old Toheeb Fetuga, also arrested. Adebayo said, “One of the ladies I defrauded was Rita. She came to a hotel in the Oyingbo area. We had met on Facebook and I agreed to do a deal with her. She was a woman willing to have a sexual affair with me for money.

I invited her to the hotel and asked how much she would take. She said $1,000, and I said it was okay. I collected her phone. I asked her to come for the money at a hotel in the Victoria Island area. So, she believed me and left.

I have done it to 7 ladies. I usually meet them on Facebook. I usually uploaded rich pictures on Facebook, which attracted them to me. Fetuga was the one I usually gave the valuables to sell. He sold each of the phones for N6,000.”