Kelvin Ogodogu joins in painting Nigeria black.
The way Nigerian fraudsters are embarrassing and
putting the name of the country to shame is becoming a daily issue, with
another Nigerian man, one Kelvin Ogodogu, being jailed in nearby Ghana
for impersonating Ghanaian Nollywood actor, Majid Michel, and defrauding a fan of the star.
Ogodogu
who is based in Accra, was sentenced to 10 months in prison with hard
labour for posing as Majid and soliciting for funds on Facebook to bury
his 'late mother' who passed on a few weeks back.
A
USA based Nigerian woman who goes by the name Ikay, and a staunch fan
of Majid, fell for Ogodogu's scam and thinking it was her favourite
actor that solicited for the funds, sent the scammer some money
amounting to thousands of dollars.
But his luck ran out when he kept making requests from the woman till she ran into the real Majid Michel
in the United States during a recent visit and accused him of making
incessant requests even after she must have sent him some money.
Michel,
feeling embarrassed, told the woman he never made any request to
anyone. To nab the impostor, the woman and the real Majid decided to
play along and with the help of the Ghanaian police, Ogodogu was
arrested when he went to receive another round of money purportedly sent
by Ikay, on the 15 of November, 2014.
He was charged to the Magistrates' Court in Teshie and sent to jail.
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