Yahoo boy Oluwatobiloba Badejo gets one year jail term over N124k scam

State High court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos before Justice O.A. Williams, on Wednesday,
May 30, 2018, sentenced an Internet fraudster identified as Oluwatobiloba Badejo.
Oluwatobiloba Badejo was arraigned on May 25, 2018 on a two- count charge
bordering on obtaining money by false pretence and possession of
fraudulent documents to the tune of N124, 937.53( One Hundred and Twenty- four
Thousand, Nine Hundred and Thirty-seven Naira, Fifty-three Kobo).
Count one reads: “That you, Oluwatobiloba Badejo (aka Lynda Andrew) on or about
the 20thof March, 2016, at Lagos within the Ikeja judicial Division, by false pretence
and with intent to defraud, obtained the sum of N52, 937.53( Fifty-two Thousand, Nine Hundred and Thirty-seven Naira,
Fifty- three Kobo) from one Manuel Alberto Rama Carracedo by falsely representing
to him that you are a woman with the name Lynda Andre , which pretence you knew
to be false.”
Count two reads: “That you, Oluwatobiloba Badejo ( aka Lynda Andrew) on or about the 13thof
June, 2016 at Lagos, within the Ikeja judicial Division by false pretence and with
intent to defraud , obtained the sum of N72, 000( Seventy- two Thousand Naira) from one Manuel
Alberto Rama Carracedo by falsely representing to him that you are a woman with the name
Lynda Andrew, which pretence you knew to be false.
” He pleaded guilty to charge preferred against him after initially entering a plea bargain with the
Commission to refund the sum of N124, 937.53 obtained from the victimsex
and also forfeit to the Federal Government a Dell laptop computer, which he used “as the
instrumentality of fraud.” The judge, after hearing the terms of agreement reached by
both the prosecution and counsel to the defendant, O. Odubela, SAN, had deferred judgment till
today (May 30.) Delivering his judgment, Justice Williams found the defendant guilty on both
counts and sentenced him to one-year imprisonment