02/11/2025
You dey chat with person abroad and e dey send you money steady? Abeg make sure say no be ‘Yahoo Love’ you dey do 👇🏾”
E get one kind relationship wey don land many people for wahala, online love with lies inside.
Make we talk true: e no bad to get online partner, even person wey dey send you small support.
But once you use fake name, fake photo, or lie say you be somebody wey you no be, just to collect money, you don enter cybercrime zone.
Under the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc.) Act 2015, if you:
• Create fake identity or account to deceive person online
• Collect money under false story (“my mama dey sick”, “I wan travel”, etc.)
• Pretend to be foreign soldier, model, or business person
na “obtaining by false pretence” (Yahoo Yahoo), and you fit go prison up to 7 years or more
Even if you be the “babe” or “guy” wey dey help move the money, law still hold you join.
Ignorance no be excuse for court matter o.
So before you collect or spend that “foreign love money”, ask yourself “This love na truth or na fraud?”
Because once EFCC knock your door, love story go turn charge sheet ⚖️