A Federal High Court sitting in the Jabi area of Abuja has sentenced Danji-Fari Ubadallah to two months imprisonment for defrauding an American $50.
In a statement by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday that the convict was arraigned on a count bordering on Internet fraud.
The statement noted that the defendant cheated the American by impersonating one Precious Rashel on Facebook.
The count read, “That you, Danji-Fari Ubadallah, sometime in 2024 at Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court cheated by personation when you created a Facebook account with the profile name Precious Rashel, a United States of America citizen and under that assumed character obtained the sum of $50.00 from his victim, one Rueben GI, through a gift card and traded same with one Zhang Jie, a Chinese citizen and received the naira equivalent in your Opay account number 8100877271 under the false pretence that you are in a romantic relationship with him, a fact you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 321 of the Penal Code Act, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria (Abuja) 1990 and punishable under Section 324 of the same Law.”
It added that the defendant pleaded guilty to the offence when read to him, and upon his guilty plea, Justice A.I. Kutigi of the FCT High Court, Jabi Abuja, convicted and sentenced him to two months imprisonment.
The judge also gave him an option of a N90,000 fine.
“When the charge was read to him, he pleaded guilty to it, prompting prosecution counsel, S.N. Robert, to pray the judge to convict and sentence him.
“Justice Kutigi convicted and sentenced Ubadallah to two months in the correctional centre with an option of a N90,000 fine.
“The judge also ordered that the iPhone which was used to perpetrate the crime be forfeited to the Federal Government,” the statement concluded.
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