24-year-old lady cries out after abroad returnee scammed she and her friend

A woman going by the name Tinuke has spoken out about her negative encounter with a man she met online who lived abroad.

The 24-year-old lady said that they had been communicating since August 2023 and that he had deceived her and her friend when he arrived in Nigeria by pretending to be a nurse in Dublin, Ireland.

When he came back to Nigeria in November, he asked her and her friend to stay at a hotel with him for a week. Since he did not have an ATM card, the man requested them to arrive with plenty of cash, which he would borrow and reimburse them later.

Tinuke, who told her incident to Instagram influencer Omowunmi, claimed that she agreed to pay N57,000 while her companion accepted N70,000. However, when they had dinner at a restaurant, the guy called in sick to go to his hotel room, and things went south.

She wrote:

“Beware of fake IJGBs o! This guy and my friend had been talking since August. He claimed to be a Nurse in Dublin. He came around in November and invited us to spend a week in the hotel as he’d booked a room for us. He asked, d us to come along with plenty cash because he planned to borrow it and transfer it back to us since he doesn’t have an ATM card.

I took N57k from my thrift business, while my friend took N70k. At the hotel restaurant, he ordered plenty of food for us. While eating, he said he needed to go to the room and asked us to bring our belongings so he could drop them for us. Without hesitation, we gave him everything except our phones. He left and came back saying he needed my friend’s iPhone 13 PM to make a call, which she gave to him. He took too long and we became worried.

I realized my iPhone 12 Pro Max had disappeared too when I tried to call her phone. We quickly told the hotel manager, and he said the guy hadn’t booked any room and that he hadn’t paid for anything we ate, which totaled N105k. Ahhhh!! They detained us because we couldn’t pay. I called my dad, and he said I should enjoy my Christmas and New Year in jail since I don’t know how to stay at home. My friend’s brother came to our rescue after 3 days. That boy that scammed us will never go abroad. Amen!”