A 34-year-old graduate of the University of Ilorin, Kelvin Monye, Sentenced to six months’ imprisonment

A 34-year-old graduate of the University of Ilorin, Kelvin Monye, was on Monday sentenced to six months’ imprisonment by Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin for romance scam.

Monye, a graduate of Agricultural Science, was convicted on two counts of cheating by impersonation and portraying himself as a white man to dupe a female of $1,000

The Economic and Financial Commission, which arraigned Monye, aka Hassan George, said he perpetrated the crime via his email address,https://live.mrf.io/punchng.com/index/widgets.mediaPublisher.html?src=marfeel/EmailDecoder.js&index=0&articleUri=https://punchng.com/unilorin-graduate-jailed-six-months-for-love-scam/&selector=.__cf_email__, to induce one Louise Evan to send $1,000 in gift cards, a representation that he knew to be false.

The offences were said to be contrary to and punishable under Section 324 of the Penal Code, Law of Nigeria.

Monye pleaded guilty to the charges.