Tosin Femi Olasemo, Nigerian scammer
The fellow pictured above is Tosin Femi Olasemo, a Nigerian who ran a dating scam that netted him hundreds of thousands of dollars while he pretended to be an American soldier stationed in Afghanistan, according to the Daily Mail. He immigrated to Great Britain from Nigeria and immediately went to work preying on innocent women. But, you know, some women are just programmed to be victims.
Take for example, Tine Jorgensen, the 47-year-old Danish widow in the Daily Mail story. She was sending this guy tens of thousands of dollars – it was her bank that finally rescued her from Olasemo, but, according to the article, that didn’t stop her because she so wanted this guy to be real;
The fraud was ended when the bank of Mrs Jorgensen stopped two further money transfers of £40,000 and £150,000 getting through to Olasemo and contacted police.
Despite discovering Morgan Travis was a lie dreamt up by a Nigerian man called Tosin Olasemo she continued an online relationship with him after telling her he had committed the fraud because he had borrowed money from Nigerian militants and now owed them money under pain of death.
Ms Smith said: ‘Unfortunately she still felt an attachment to the defendant and stayed in contact for some time and sent him more money until a lady claiming to be the Danish wife of Olasemo contacted her.
‘As a result of that she contacted police and he was arrested at his home in Cardiff.’
Ladies contact us all of the time about these guys. My “rule of thumb” goes like this; if you’re asking me if he’s a phony, he probably is a phony. Don’t send money to someone you’ve never met face-to-face (don’t depend on Skype).
Category: Phony soldiers, Valor Vultures
Anyone have a picture of Mrs. Jorgensen? I think my wife if fixing to put me on waivers. Planning ahead.
Funny.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Hey! He said his name was Nate Wylie!! You mean, he LIED to me?????
He’s also used the aliases “Hugh Jorgan” and “Ben Dover”. (nudge nudge wink wink)
Let’s not forget Mike Hunt, or Dick Hertz, from Holden (Mass. a real place).
Dear Ms. Ex-PH2,,,,,Unfortunately I have some bad news for you. My dear brother Nate Wylie has been kilt. Dedder than hell for sure! We were both in London trieng to sell some genuwine asstroids we had recently found on a trip to the woods. Prince Charlie came out from the palace and tryed to claim them his property sense they came from way out there near the mmoone. What happened was Nate wanted far more than the $4.50 Charlie wanted to pay him. There was a brief scuffle and Charlie shot him. Later that evening Charlie came to my flat and made a settlement offer I could not refuse. He offered me
ten million U. S dollars plus a free ride in the royal buggy. My only other problem attached to the settlement was that I could never tell anybody else what happened. Now I desperately want to come to the U. S. and here is my super sekrit special deal to you. Please send me ASAP the amount of one million dollars in American currency. After my representatives counts your money, we will wire directly to your bank account the amount of five million dollars directly to your own account. All I need from you to complete this transaction is the “good term” money for assisting me. Please send your phone number, your bank account number, address and phone number, S. S. number, and of course your account number. With the wonderful looks and pretty face you have, I think we have a good relationship that can go very far if you want to. Please send the wired money via Western Union. We don’t need no stinking polize gettin’ involved with this and in are way. I trust you only because you were such a close and personal friend of Nate. I be waiting to hear from you.
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She “wanted him to be real”. Too pathetic to be funny. Anyone who has ever dealt with Nigerians knows that kind of thing is WHAT THEY DO!
I have a FB page dedicated to helping people find out if they are being fish-hooked by military romance scammers.
It’s unbelievable how many scammmers are on dating sites and facebook.
I get about 10 messages a week asking about “servicemen”. Some of the victims catch on a bit early, others have sent money. The highest ammout was $100,000 US scammed from a university professor in Malaysia.