She further added that she met the suspect on TikTok, a social media platform, and he claimed to be an American by the name of Howard Adams currently working in Nigeria.
Explaining the incident, the state police command said the suspected fraudster identified as Joshua Awoleye, a Higher National Diploma student of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin allegedly lured the foreigner and swindled her of the sum of $1000 when she came to Nigeria.
Parading the suspect at the police headquarters in Ilorin on Friday, the Commissioner of Police, Paul Odama, said that Awoleye of Sabo-Oke Road, Ilorin lodged Moss in a hotel and defrauded her.
According to the CP, “On January 12, 2023, at about 1200 hours, based on actionable intelligence, operatives of the SCID at the Kwara State Police Command arrested one Awoleye Joshua Oluwatofunmi, “male” of Sabo-Oke Road, Ilorin, within the premises of a hotel along Flower Garden Road, Ilorin, in company with one Vonapolouis Moss, an American citizen.
“A preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect, who is an Internet fraudster known as Yahoo Boy, presented himself to the victim on TikTok, a social media platform, as an American by the name of Howard Adams and ripped her off for about 1,000 USD.
A United States citizen, Vonapolouis Moss, has narrated her ordeal at the Kwara State Police Command, about how she was tricked into travelling to Nigeria by an HND student of Kwara State Polytechnic, a 23 years old Joshua Awoyele, also a suspected Internet fraudster widely known as “yahoo boy”.
But the management of Kwara State Polytechnic in a swift reaction has denied that Joshua Awoyele is currently not a student of the institution.
Moss of 2962, W 64th Court, Merrillville, Indiana 46410, USA said she was lured into the country on January 9, 2023, by the suspect.
