{"id":40194,"date":"2014-03-06T11:35:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T16:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40194"},"modified":"2014-03-06T11:35:34","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T16:35:34","slug":"nigerian-phony-soldier-scammer-indicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40194","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian phony soldier scammer indicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/article\/20140305\/NEWS06\/303050011\/Prosecutors-Man-posed-soldier-defrauded-women\">Associated Press<\/a> about Adagun Moshood Olalekan who was indicted on four counts of wire fraud in Saint Louis this week related to a scam to defraud women posing as a widower sole-parent soldier;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Investigators say he set up fake online profiles from September through last month, including one identifying him as \u201cLt. Col. Cadin Cayce Webb.\u201d They say he used the photos of an actual soldier stationed in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment alleges he described himself as a widower with a daughter and wooed American women with \u201cromantic emails and instant messages\u201d and \u201cfalse promises of marriage\u201d before getting them to wire money to Nigeria.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope they pluck off each of his appendages slowly and one at a time. If, for nothing else, the amount of spam I get from these freaks. It&#8217;s a jungle out there, ladies. If he sounds too good to be true, he probably is. And, oh, yeah, sending money to Nigeria might be your first clue. Or the last clue, as the case may be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary sends us a link to the Associated Press about Adagun Moshood Olalekan who was indicted &hellip; <a title=\"Nigerian phony soldier scammer indicted\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40194\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nigerian phony soldier scammer indicted<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}