Truemors
Opinion
Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor
North Americans have all been affected in some way, whether those pesky spam mail stating untold millions await those foolish enough to provide thier bank account numbers.
Internet Sellers who recieve a cheque in the mail ten times the amount for which your product you are selling is worth, with a reply that sorry for overpaying, please send me back the overpayment, only to find it was a fraudelent cheque and you the seller are out of pocket.
The Scam artist who practised these scams all over North America has finally worn out his welcome, as Authourities will be sending "Scammy" a free trip back to Nigeria, and once his foot hits Nigerian soil, the next day most of us will soon find his spam emails in our spam folder.
A Nigerian man appears to have unintentionally secured himself a deportation ticket to his homeland by getting caught scamming a retired Winnipeg physician out of several thousand dollars.
Toluwalade Owolabi is expected to be sent back to Nigeria once his 21/2-year prison sentence is over.
And it could come far quicker, as the 37-year-old has only 14 months of actual time to serve behind bars after a provincial court judge yesterday gave him 16 months of credit for time he has spent in custody.
MAY GET EARLY PAROLE
"They'll probably give him early parole and throw him on a plane," Crown attorney Steve Johnston told the Winnipeg Sun after the sentencing, which followed Owolabi's guilty plea weeks ago to a charge of conspiracy to commit fraud.
Owolabi had used an e-mail fraud -- the kind associate chief Judge Mary Kate Harvie described as a "Nigerian letter scam" -- to con the elderly doctor out of at least $7,800 in a month late last summer.
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