Scammer Jailed After Impersonating Nollywood’s Mike Ezuruonye On Facebook

Justice P.I. Ajoku of the Federal Hearing, Benin, the state of Edo has condemned an Ekoh Noel, the man who supplanted Nollywood actor, Mike Ezuruonye, ​​in a scam of social networks. The Commission for Economic and Financial Crimes (EFCC) revealed , where it said Noel fraudulently obtained N12.4 million through the scam.


A tweet via the commission’s handle read: “Ekoh Noel, who impersonated Mike Ezuruonye on Facebook to fraudulently obtain N12.4million from his victim has been sentenced to one year imprisonment.


The EFCC posted a tweet where the actor had commended the commission, which read:

“Nollywood actor Mike Ezuruonye commends #TheEagle in Benin for helping to nab impersonators who used his name for romance scams,” quoting Ezuruonye as stating that ‘It’s amazing that these women have come to believe that I am the one. They even use my picture, voice and old videos to defraud people’.

The Nollywood actor had earlier come out to announce how he had gotten death threats from boyfriends and husbands, because of fraudsters using his face.

He said: “It’s so sad, I have gotten death threats from people, I have gotten from husbands of these people, boyfriends of these people, maybe because of the way I deal with it you know, that’s another thing.
“The EFCC in Benin have been so helpful, I mean, it is really bad. I have seen five people caught. There was a time it was so much the Inspector General of Police’s office got my account investigated. I was invited to the IGP’s office in Abuja, it was that bad.”FOLLOW Instagram - kemikingblog Facebook - jaiyeorie Weddings - jaiyeorieweddings Advertise/ send gist to us - jaiyenews@gmail.com ... spill TEA Easy on Shade #jaiyeorie