Odeyemi Oluwaseun was found guilty of online fraud and given a one-year prison sentence by the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin.
The defendant, who identified as a spiritualist, was charged with two counts by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s (EFCC) Ilorin Zonal directorate. The charges included impersonation, obtaining under false pretenses, and computer fraud.
Count one charges read,“That you, Odeyemi Hammed Oluwaseun, sometime in December, 2023 in Ilorin, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, dishonestly induced one Bose to send $3200.00 worth of gift cards to you, with the impression that the same would be used to diabolically influence her ex-husband to return and marry her, while you pretended and represented yourself to be one Lord Hill, a female spiritualist with email account hillor674@gmail.com, and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 321 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 324 of the same Penal Code.”
Count two read, “That you, Odeyemi Hammed Oluwaseun, between August, 2023 to September, 2023 in Ilorin within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, dishonestly induced one Schneider Alina to send $4500.00 worth of gift cards to you, with the impression that the same would be used to diabolically control her ex-boyfriend to return and marry her, while you represented yourself to be a female spiritualist with Instagram account _Visions_by_Tendo_12 and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 321 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 324 of the same Penal Code.”
When the charges were read to him, he entered a guilty plea. Sesan Ola, the prosecution’s attorney, then went over the case’s facts, presented the convict’s extrajudicial statements and supporting documentation, including the $1,000 that had been found on him, and asked the court to find him guilty and sentence him as charged.
Oluwaseun was given a six-month suspended jail sentence on each count by the presiding court, Justice Abdulgafar, who also mandated that the $1,000, iPhone 15, and 2008 Toyota Camry that were found on him be turned over to the federal government.
Oluwaseun, a 23-year-old Oyo State native, conned his victims online by pretending to be a female spiritualist residing in the United States who had the ability to make divorced wives and abandoned women win back their men’s love.