Nigerian Fake Pretended to Be US Army Captain on Match.com

Fake soldier pretended to be a US Army Captain in Afghanistan on Match.com dating site to trick lonely women out of £400,000
Daily Mail UK
By AMANDA WILLIAMS FOR MAILONLINE
July 2015

Tosin Femi Olasemo, 37, pretended to be American Captain Morgan Travis

Nigerian fraudster used profile picture of man wearing full military uniform He soon struck up intense relationships with women and asked for money
Has been jailed for four and a half years after admitting 12 counts of fraud
Nigerian fraudster Tosin Femi Olasemo masqueraded as a US Army captain serving in Afghanistan to scam lonely women out of more than £400,000

A Nigerian fraudster masqueraded as a US Army captain serving in Afghanistan on an online dating profile to scam lonely women out of more than £400,000.

Tosin Femi Olasemo, 37, was allowed into Britain on a student visa, where he set up a Match.com profile from his Cardiff home, pretending to be an American serviceman.

The women believed heroic Captain Morgan Travis was on the lonely hearts website looking for love. But a court heard it was Nigerian-born Olasemo, 37, who used a picture of a soldier wearing full military uniform as his profile picture.

He began 'intense online relationships' with the women before beginning to ask for small amounts of money to help pay for leave to visit them over two years.
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U.S. Troops on Search Team for Nigerian Girls

DOD Official
16 U.S. Troops on Search Team for Nigerian Girls
By Cheryl Pellerin
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, May 12, 2014 – A total of 16 military personnel from U.S. Africa Command have joined the interdisciplinary team led by the State Department at the U.S. Embassy in Abuja, Nigeria, to help in finding hundreds of kidnapped girls, a Pentagon spokesman said today.

Members of the extremist group Boko Haram abducted more than 200 girls from the Government Secondary boarding school in the town of Chibok on the night of April 14. Several countries, including the United States, have offered help.

On May 6, President Barack Obama said on NBC’s “Today” program that the immediate priority is finding the girls, and then the world must address the broader problem of organizations like Boko Haram that “can cause such havoc in people's day-to-day lives.”

At the Pentagon today, Army Col. Steve Warren said the group of 16 military personnel includes experts in communications, logistics, civil affairs, operations and intelligence.

“Their role is to assess the situation, advise and assist the Nigerian government in their efforts to respond to this crisis situation, and find the young women kidnapped by Boko Haram,” the colonel added.

A majority of the group members were staff officers and personnel from the embassy’s Office of Security Cooperation, whose mission is to enhance the long-term bilateral defense relationship between Nigeria and the United States. The rest came into the country from outside Africa, he said.

The Office of Security Cooperation in Nigeria is the largest in Africa, Warren said. “We have a total of 50 or 60 military personnel assigned to the embassy there as part of the country team,” the colonel added, and 16 now are devoted to the interdisciplinary team to find the girls.

The Defense Department has no plans at this point, he said, to put more personnel into the country.

Camp Lejeune Marine saved couple in Nigeria

Marine awarded for saving couple
WNCT News
By Angela Green
Posted: Apr 14, 2014

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - Sergeant Stephen Lowe, an armory custodian with 2nd Marine Division has been awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal.

This honor comes nearly a year after he swam through waves nearly six feet tall to help rescue a couple in distress at a beach on Snake Island, Nigeria.

Lowe said he risked his life in such conditions because he believes that everybody's life is more important than your own. "That’s the way I was raised that if someone needed help you helped them, even if it was giving them the shirt off of your back. So you should never get or expect a prize for saving someone’s life.

That’s a prize in itself,” he said.
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