A 23-year-old Nigerian man is alleged to have used a fake female dating profile to defraud a middle-aged Australian man out of $20,000. Earlier this year I blogged about a Nigerian man who created a fake identity on an internet dating website, and ultimately managed to infect the computer of a female employee at NASA. According to Detective Superintendent Brian Hay of the Queeensland Police Service Fraud and Corporate Crime Group, there have been 10 arrests to date as a result of cases investigated in conjunction with the Nigerian Economic Financial Crimes Commission.”]
Source: https://grahamcluley.com/alleged-online-fraudster-posed-as-female-lonely-heart/