High Court of Oyo State, in Ibadan, has sentenced Michael Lawal, an Uber driver, to three months’ imprisonment over internet fraud.
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in a statement on Monday said Mr Lawal was convicted and sentenced by the court after he pleaded guilty to the offence of obtaining money by false pretence.
The convict was said to have in 2020, in Ibadan Oyo State, fraudulently obtained gift cards from one Trevor, a white male, by falsely representing to him that he was a white female by the name Cyndy Tyler from the United States of America.
His charge reads;
That you, Michael Tosin Lawal ‘M’ sometimes in the year 2020, in Ibadan Oyo State, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud, obtained Gift Cards from one Trevor, a white male by falsely representing to him that you are a white female by the name Cyndy Tyler from the United States of America, which pretence you knew to be false.
Following his plea, the judge, M. A. Odegbola convicted and sentenced him to three months in prison.
The Judge also ordered the convict to restitute $50 (N19,000) to his victim through EFCC and forfeit items recovered from him to the Federal Government of Nigeria.
