Nigerian conman weeps as he is jailed

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3221046/Nigerian-conman-cheated-pensioners-5m-life-savings.html

3 September 2015

Godwin Nwaofor, 36, kept a 'suckers list' of potential victims to send bogus letters saying they had won the Australian Lottery.

Nigerian conman whose 'lottery win' fraud cheated pensioners out of £5m life savings weeps as he is jailed

In some cases, dupes set up businesses in an attempt to receive their winnings and became unwitting money mules laundering cash from other victims.

One victim, a 76-year-old woman, who believed she had won $1.85m, tried to track down Nwaofor after the FBI told her she had fallen victim to a scam. She flew to the UK and went to the address she had for Nwaofor, but found that he had already moved on to another address.

with a headline like that, Terrance..... you forgot to include the best part

He broke down in tears as he was jailed for seven years this morning, but the judge said he did not believe the remorse was genuine.

‘Just as a crocodile sheds its tears while devouring its prey, so the copious weeping in court is not hypocritical remorse but tears of frustration that in spite of your careful concealment, you have been well and truly rumbled’, the judge told him.


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Yes indeed HillBilly, he certainly wasn't weeping for the pensioners whose life savings he was stealing and squandering when he blew the money on…

….luxury cars, gold jewellery and expensive champagne at top nightclubs in London. Pictured is Nwaofor in a Ferrari