Detectives at the Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan,
Lagos, are unravelling a case of fraud involving an asthmatic patient, Bose
(Deborah) Bamidele.
It was gathered that the 26-year-old Ikole, Ekiti
State indigene, manipulated the voice setting of her phone and pretended to be
different persons to defraud her best friend, identified only as Abimbola, of
N3.7m, and another woman, Glory Etuk, of about N1m.
Bamidele met 30-year-old Abimbola in the Anthony
area of Lagos State sometime in 2016.
The duo became close friends after the suspect
claimed that she had no relatives and her husband and children were dead.
As the friendship grew, the suspect invented a
character, Dapo Awosika, whom she said just returned from the United States and
could make a good suitor for Abimbola.
Through telephone calls and WhatsApp chats, Bamidele (while
acting as Awosika) defrauded Abimbola of N3.7m.
She allegedly created more characters, including an
elderly female evangelist, through whom she persuaded her second victim, Etuk,
to part with about N1m.
The police had received a petition from Abimbola and
arrested Bamidele, expecting her to produce her collaborators only to discover
that she allegedly masterminded the whole act.
Abimbola, who worked with an advert agency, said that that she could not believe that her best friend was behind her ordeal.
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