Adewale Adewole
(pictured here) used the photo of an unconnected innocent man on match.com
profiles.
A Salford man who used fake dating profiles to fool women into
giving him £100,000 to help fund a non-existent Nigerian orphanage has been
jailed.
Adewale Adewole, of Carrfield Avenue, Little Hulton asked for
money through match.com and backed up fake personas on that site using photos
on Facebook.He promised the women would be repaid.
The 31-year-old admitted four counts of fraud by false
representation and was sentenced at Manchester Crown Court to four years and
six months in prison.
Greater Manchester Police said Adewole had invented a fake charity
supporting an orphanage and created a website for it, which listed the names of
two fake directors.He then used one of the names, along with a photo of an
unconnected, innocent man, to create profiles on the dating website.
Using those profiles, police said he romanced four women, gained their
trust and asked them for money to help the sick orphans, which he told them he
would repay.
When one woman told him she had no money, he asked her to send an
iPad and iPhone instead.
His fraud was uncovered when one woman became suspicious and
contacted the World Health Organization, who told her the orphanage did not
exist.
Det Con Shaun Nicholls said Adewole had “preyed on the
vulnerability and kind-heartedness of the victims.
“Through deceit and dishonesty, the victims were conned into
believing they had entered into a loving relationship and had a future with
Adewole.
“But instead they were taken advantage of and their trust was
shattered.”
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