{"id":5482,"date":"2019-04-28T23:21:14","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T23:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/ng\/?p=5482"},"modified":"2019-04-28T23:21:14","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T23:21:14","slug":"disgraceful-nigerian-yahoo-yahoo-man-cosmos-emeh-posed-as-fake-american-soldier-scam-australian-woman-the-sum-of-400000-through-money-transfer-service-32-year-old-conman-deceived-vulnerable-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/disgraceful-nigerian-yahoo-yahoo-man-cosmos-emeh-posed-as-fake-american-soldier-scam-australian-woman-the-sum-of-400000-through-money-transfer-service-32-year-old-conman-deceived-vulnerable-l\/","title":{"rendered":"DISGRACEFUL! NIGERIAN Yahoo Yahoo Man, COSMOS EMEH posed as FAKE American Soldier…Scam Australian Woman the sum of $400,000 through money transfer service * 32 year old conman deceived vulnerable ladies through hoax online romance scheme * Lied to 38 year old female victim, traveled to woman’s house to collect extra $105,000 *Charged with one count each of fraud and attempted fraud at Brisbane Magistrates Court * \u201cThe 34-year-old woman began an online romantic relationship with Cosmos Emeh, 32, after befriending him on social media in October 2018. The following month, she was groomed into believing Emeh was a US soldier, and sent him more than $200,000 through a money transfer service. He he then traveled to the woman’s house to collect a further $105,000\u201d-Australian Police BY BIMBO AYOBAMI\/CRIME CORRESPONDENT, AUSTRALIA, Naija Standard Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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DISGRACEFUL!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NIGERIAN\nYahoo Yahoo Man, COSMOS EMEH posed as FAKE American Soldier<\/strong>…Scam\nAustralian Woman the sum of $400,000 through money transfer service <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

*\n32 year old conman deceived vulnerable ladies through hoax online\nromance scheme<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*\nLied to 38 year old female victim, traveled to woman’s house to\ncollect extra $105,000<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*Charged\nwith one count each of fraud and attempted fraud at Brisbane\nMagistrates Court<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

*\n\u201cThe 34-year-old woman began an online romantic relationship with\nCosmos Emeh, 32, after befriending him on social media in October\n2018. The <\/strong>following month,\nshe was groomed into believing Emeh<\/strong>\n<\/strong>was a US\nsoldier, and sent him more than $200,000 through a money transfer\nservice. He he then traveled to the woman’s house to collect a\nfurther $105,000\u201d-Australian Police<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\nBIMBO AYOBAMI\/CRIME CORRESPONDENT, AUSTRALIA, Naija\nStandard Newspaper<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

HE\nALWAYS BELIEVE ON LIVING ON THE FAST LANE. HE CHERISHES DRIVING BIG,\nEXPENSIVE CARS. HE WAS SO MUCH IN A HURRY TO LIVE A LIFE OF\nEXTRAVAGANZE. COSMOS EMEH, a 32 year old Nigerian in Brisbane,\nAustralia dressed in a fake American soldier camouflage uniform had\npicture taken and slide same on his profile in one of the online\ndating sites claiming to be an American soldier to lure women away. <\/strong>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emeh\nhas been accused of posing as a soldier from the United States in\norder to groom an Australian woman he met online and has been charged\nwith fraud after allegedly scamming her out of almost $400,000. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australian\nPolice said the 34-year-old woman began an online romantic\nrelationship with Emeh, after befriending him on social media in\nOctober 2018. It\nis alleged in the following month, she was groomed into believing\nEmeh\n<\/strong>was\na United States soldier, and sent him more than $200,000 through a\nmoney transfer service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Believing\nhe has ensured the victim’s trust, Australian Police said Emeh then\ntraveled to the woman’s house to collect an additional $105,000. But\nshe became suspicious and reported the matter to police after\nconfiding in a close friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Detectives\nfrom the State Crime Command’s Financial and Cyber Crime Group\narrested Emeh\n<\/strong>on\nThursday while he was trying to persuade the victim to hand over more\nmoney. He\nhas been charged with one count each of fraud and attempted fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ncourt heard Emeh is studying a degree at a Brisbane university and\ndenied having any contact with the alleged victim via the internet.\nHis lawyer told the court he only came into possession of the SIM\ncard used to receive money and contact the alleged victim yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emeh\nappeared in the Brisbane Magistrates Court this morning where he was\ndenied bail. Police also executed a search warrant at a Durack home\nin Brisbane’s west and seized a number of items.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Detective\nInspector Vince Byrnes from the Financial and Cyber Crime Group said\nthe alleged scammer had cultivated a “well-structured backstory”\nto deceive the victim. “I\nwould categorise this victim as a well-educated young person who has\nentered into an online relationship based on what she was told.”\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disturbing\nNews:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Detective\nInspector Byrnes said when the alleged offender met with the woman to\ncollect money, he pretended to be an agent for the US soldier. He\nsaid the in-person pick up was particularly “disturbing”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s\nvery uncommon in Australia or anywhere around the world to have an\noffender involved in a scam to physically present themselves for the\ncollection of money,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Detective\nInspector Byrnes could not say if the woman would get her money back\nand said police were investigating whether the accused had targeted\nother victims. Inspector Byrnes said people needed to be aware\nof the “red flags” when forming relationships online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The\ncamera doesn’t work on their phone so you can’t Skype, you can’t do\nit face-to-face \u2014 it’s these types of methodologies used by the\nscammers to protect their identity,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Detective\nSuperintendent Terry Lawrence said it was a common international\nscam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The\nUS Army Criminal Investigation Command receives hundreds of\ncomplaints a month from people who find themselves involved in an\nonline relationship with someone purporting to be a US soldier,”\nhe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Usually\nthe offender’s interaction with the victim is all online, so this\nfurther step of traveling to the victim’s home is certainly something\nwe need the public to hear and be warned of today.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police\nsaid the case was an “urgent warning” to the public to be\nwary of relationships developed online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Take\nthe time to evaluate the relationship, talk to friends and other\nloved ones about your new relationship online \u2014 we are thankful the\nvictim in this instance took this step,” Detective\nSuperintendent Lawrence said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DISGRACEFUL! NIGERIAN Yahoo Yahoo Man, COSMOS EMEH posed as FAKE American Soldier…Scam Australian Woman the sum of $400,000 through money transfer service * 32 year old conman deceived vulnerable ladies through hoax online romance scheme * Lied to 38 year old female victim, traveled to woman’s house to collect extra $105,000 *Charged with one count […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5482","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigeriastandardnewspaper.com\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}