Artyom Geraschenkov became acquainted with
the fraudster, who was posing as a white female ‘Angelina Crane,’
via one of Russian social media sites.
‘Angelina’ told him she was an
American currently residing in Nigeria and asked if he could help her
financially by transferring 50 or 60 US dollars a week. Mr Geraschenkov,
who immediately understood the fraudulent motive behind his new ‘lady’
friend’s request, decided to play along and expose the scammer.
He replied by saying ‘Angelina’ was worth more than just $60 and
suggested sending $500-600 instead. ‘Angelina’ happily agreed and sent her
personal details necessary for making the monetary transfer – including
the documents with the real name and photograph of the scammer, Olukade
Kehinde Martins.
However, this was when Mr Geraschenkov told ‘Angelina’
he was a dealer with Apple and had, coincidentally, to ship 200 iPhones to
Lagos, all of which but one paid for by a local Apple store.
The Ukrainian promised her she could take two iPhone
devices if she compensated the cost of one of them, explaining that it
would be impossible to ship the whole batch of phones to Nigeria without
leaving one unpaid for.
Eventually,
Mr Geraschenkov managed to persuade Angelina-Olukade to send him $600.
Once he received the money, he told the scammer he, too, was a Nigerian
residing in Lagos.
In an interview with a Russian media outlet Meduza, Mr Geraschenkov
said he returned the money to the Nigerian scammer, half-jokingly admitting
that a clean “karma” was more important.
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