by TerranceBoyce
Wed Nov 11, 2015 1:22 pm
http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Couple-conned-man-43-000-fooling-thinking-won-1/story-28154038-detail/story.html?
November 11, 2015
A couple involved in conning a man out of more than £43,000 in a £1.5 million competition scam have been jailed.
Osamudianmen Amayo (27) and Maureen Omhenaka (28), both of Empire Road, Leicester, pleaded guilty to converting criminal property, namely £43,425 and 1,500 euros, fraudulently obtained, between April 13 and November 29, 2014.
"The victim receive a text purporting to be from UK Apple Incorporated saying he had won £1.5 million.
Mr Bide-Thomas said: "He'd [the victim] taken out loans and spent his children's inheritance and was left in a precarious situation.
"He feels he was brainwashed and can't believe he was so credulous, putting it down to being 'naive, old and vulnerable.'
Defence counsel said Omhenaka had recently been given leave to remain in the UK but Amayo might be "automatically deported" to Nigeria at the end of his sentence.
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