The first woman had fallen in love with the same man and even had a child with him.
A Singaporean woman fell in love with a member of a Nigerian criminal group carrying out love scams from Malaysia and later became a money mule, transporting the ill-gotten gains out of Singapore.
Between Feb 7 and 22, 2019, her bank account was used to receive $65,000 from multiple scam victims in Singapore.Faridah was the second Singaporean woman linked to him to be sentenced for acting as a money mule.on two counts of helping another person retain the benefits of criminal conduct involving more than $356,000.
The scammer would cultivate a romantic relationship with them and gain their trust, before asking for money from the victims who would give in to the demands. Awolola and Faridah started chatting with each other on WhatsApp. She travelled to Malaysia to meet him some time before Feb 7, 2019, and they slept in the same room. She returned to Singapore three days later.She was later told to withdraw the money she received in her bank account and hand it to him in Malaysia.Awolola gave her between a few hundred dollars and $1,000 for going to Malaysia to pass him the monies.
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