Conman jailed for love affair scams

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13 August 2015

A conman who cheated women out of thousands of pounds after convincing them an American marine had fallen in love with them has been jailed for six years. Robinson Agbonifoayetan posed as a soldier online and defrauded two women out of £42,000. One of his victims, who lives in Ealing, used up her life savings and sold her car before becoming suspicious and alerting the police.

(Robinson Agbonifoayetan Credit: Metropolitan Police)

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15 August 2015

A conman has been jailed after swindling more than £300,000 from two women who thought he was an American diplomat.
Robinson Agbonifoayetan told his victims he was called Christopher Williams and said he wanted to move to the UK to marry them.
The 32-year-old, from Welling, south east London, used a forged United Nations diplomat card to convince the women to hand over their retirement money during multiple meetings in London

The court heard he sent photographs of himself pretending to be a solider and built up a strong rapport by speaking to her several times a day.
He paid the victim countless compliments and confided in her about family tragedies, such as his parents and sister dying in a car crash, it was said.
The woman subsequently transferred around £260,000 into Ghanaian bank accounts, using up her life savings, pawning jewellery, selling her car and taking out loans to make the payments.

Officers arrested Agbonifoayetan on 17 December, 2014, at Heathrow airport as he was trying to flee to Nigeria.