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The true story of one Tony Oba:
As it says above, Tony was eager not be shot dead by one of his own fraud victims - who he claims was hunting for him all over Nigeria - with a gun. Oba used a fake ID and a fake plane ticket to board a Lufthansa flight for Tehran, Iran on Sept. 25th 2003. On arrival he meets up with fellow Nigerian scammers "Sly" and "Osas" who paid for the same travel package. Together they set up a blackened money or "wash-wash" scam. After a few botched scam attempts, Oba managed to lose his fake passport and had to arrange a replacement to flee to Iraq... it's not clear what he did in Iraq, but it probably involved contract work with boss Arinze Udemezue. After a couple of months, Oba left Iraq for Dublin, Ireland... But let's rewind the clock. When Oba needed help to leave Nigeria, he contacted a Lagos forger named Anthony Ikpfuran. The forger supplied him with fake airline tickets and a fake passport. More shit-stirring characters: Ikpfuran the faker,
Ikpfuran had partnered with Arinze Udemezue. Udemezue's role was to supply invitation letters and set up legal employment on arrival. More on those two later...
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I am uche twin brother onyeka , uche you know in iraq,he is now in dublin in europe and he need your help now because he said he is not alowed to move around, you can visit him there and help him. pls my number 08034506551 he is seriously in need. this is the name and the place
NAME ; HASSAN ANIE PLACE; CLOVER HILL DUBLIN PRISON ROOM NU; 22 C210 card number 33712 |
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| Does Uche look Iraqi to you? |
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It turned out that Uche wanted fake documents to back up his claim to being a down-on-his-luck Iraqi... but his story that he lost his I.D. during the flight didn't fool anyone. Oba agreed to help and he turned to the forger he knew so well - Anthony Ikpfuran in Lagos. Money was exchanged and it was agreed that Ikpfuran would create a fake Iraqi birth certificate and a fake ID card that identified "Hassan Anie" (Uche) as a cleaner working for a contractor called GSCS in Iraq - shown here:
Ikpfuran didn't know what an Iraqi birth certificate was supposed to look like. A sample was requested...
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HI,
NAME SAKE, AS PER THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE DO U HAVE SPECIMEN OR WHAT U THINK SHOULD BE IN THE CERTIFICATE OR ANY ARABIC LANGUAGE ON IT LET KNOW WHAT TO DO B4 MONEY WILL LAND MY HAND TO PREPARE IT DOWN. TONY |
We certainly had opinions about what should be on that certificate. So we were pleased that a mix-up resulted in the intended sample being switched for the one you see above... a decidedly Iranian-Iraqi certificate with some very offensive Arabic.
Unaware that the sample he received had been tampered with, the forger replied...
| WELL I HAVE SEE THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE WHICH U SEND TO ME , I WILL TRY MY BEST POSSIBLE TO MAKE SURE IT LOOK OKAY IN YOUR SIGHT. |
...And it wasn't long before Oba received the new fake. Naturally, we were astonished that this substituted document didn't help Uche to get released from the Irish prison... in fact, he later complained to the forger that the Police refused to even return the fakes he had presented:
| tony that ID you do for me last time the policeman that have the ID don't want to return it to my lawyer. |
They argued back and forth about whose fault it was that the fakes hadn't worked... for several months... Just recently they agreed that Uche now has to pay more money for new documents to be made. It would be a terrible shame if these new fakes were also involved in a mix up... but we hear that these things do happen... a lot!
Meanwhile, we have bigger scammers to fry, so we turn our attention to forger Anthony Ikpfuran who operates his forgery business from 69 Abina Street, Surulere, Lagos, Nigeria.
| "AM NOW IN ITALY.I HAVE A BIG PROBLEM IN MILAN.THEY SENT ME TO LAGOS AND LAGOS IMMIGRATION SENT ME BACK TO MILAN.THEY PUT ME IN JAIL AND AFTER THAT THEY RELEASED ME TO GO INSIDE ITALY TO STAY FOR FIVE DAYS." - Chucks |
| "Tony, i understand u clearly, and will comply with that. I saw victors malawi pee it was just the best of your work i have ever seen. I want my job done like that but i will need botswana pee. I will communicate to u when i send money." - Kelechi |
Tony Ikpfuran's fakes were always likely to get him into trouble, though it's never easy to get the Nigerian Police to actually enforce any of their laws. However, as luck would have nothing do with it, on August 4th, 2005, Ikpfuran was arrested for forgery in Lagos. Here we see him explaining to a would-be customer why he can't fake anything...
| HI, PLS I WANT TO DEAL WITH U BUT I HAVE ONE PROBLEM FOR NOW THAT IS WHY I COULD NOT GET TO U IN TIME BCOS I SPENT MOST OF MY TIME IN POLICE STATION I WAS JUST LUCK I COULD HAVE CHANCE TO CHECK MY MAIL BOX. I HOPE BY NEXT WEEK I WILL BE FREE PLS PRAY FOR ME FOR THIS CASE TO BE OVER IN TIME.I NEED MONEY NOW BADLY SO I WILL LIKE TO DEAL WITH U . IF U CHECK MY PHONE WAS COLLECTED FROM ME SO U CANNOT GET ME ON PHONE. I WILL GET BACK SOON. TONY |
It seemed to be a happy ending. The background to the arrest was that our informant reported a scammer being deported from Italy and in possession of some of Tony's fake documents. With a little help from us, these documents were traced back to Tony Ikpfuran and information provided to the authorities for the arrest. Sadly, the forger was released from prison on August 19th, 2005... after only 2 weeks behind bars. He was bailed on condition that he agree to re-fund money to the Nigerian customer - who claimed not to know the ID documents she bought were fake.
On his release, Ikpfuran was desperate for money, he urged his biggest customer to send more jobs his way. That customer happened to be same one who helped Oba to leave Nigeria for Iran back in 2003... Arinze Udemezue. As we will see, Udemezue had gained employment with contractor SITCO on base at Camp Cooke, Al Taji, Iraq. He had set up some of his fellow scammers in jobs as drivers / caterers with SITCO at the U.S. base.
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| Nwekeomah Nonso Christopher |
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The fate of these scammers is tied to that of the man that helped them cheat their way into Iraq, scammer boss Arinze Udemezue. You can learn what happened to them all as we take up the story on Arinze's page... or you can send these fraudsters your mockery right now - you can find the contact details on the top of this page.
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