An Ikeja High Court presided over by Justice O.A. Williams, on Wednesday, sentenced an internet fraudster (Yahoo boy), Oluwatobiloba Badejo, to one year in prison for scamming victims of the sum of N124, 000.

Reports said Badejo was arraigned on May 25, 2018, on a two- count bordering on obtaining money by false pretence and possession of fraudulent documents to the tune of N124, 937.53 ( one hundred and twenty- four thousand, nine hundred and thirty-seven naira, fifty-three kobo).

Count one reads: “That you, Oluwatobiloba Badejo (aka Lynda Andrew) on or about the 20thof March, 2016, at Lagos within the Ikeja Judicial Division, by false pretence and with intent to defraud, obtained the sum of N52, 937.53( Fifty-two Thousand, Nine Hundred and Thirty-seven Naira, Fifty- three Kobo) from one Manuel Alberto Rama Carracedo by falsely representing to him that you are a woman with the name Lynda Andre, which pretence you knew to be false.”

Count two reads: “That you, Oluwatobiloba Badejo ( aka Lynda Andrew) on or about the 13thof June, 2016 at Lagos, within the Ikeja judicial Division by false pretence and with intent to defraud , obtained the sum of N72, 000( Seventy- two Thousand Naira) from one Manuel Alberto Rama Carracedo by falsely representing to him that you are a woman with the name Lynda Andrew, which pretence you knew to be false. ”

Badejo pleaded guilty to the two counts after initially entering a plea bargain with the Commission to refund the sum of N124, 937.53 obtained from the victims and also forfeit to the Federal Government a Dell laptop computer, which he used “as the instrumentality of fraud.”

However, Justice Williams after hearing the terms of the agreement reached between the prosecution and defence counsel, O. Odubela, SAN, adjourned judgment to May 30th.

The judge while giving his verdict, found Badejo guilty on both counts and sentenced him to one-year imprisonment.