Badoo love: How kidnappers lure men into their graves with online dates

Found this report on Saturday Sun about how a
gang use dating website Badoo to lure men to
lonely places where they rob and sometimes kill
them. Find the full report below...

Members of a five-man gang of kidnappers,
including a lady, have given a gory detail of
how they lure men through a popular online
dating website known as Badoo to a lonely
spot where they attack and rob them of
their valuables while the unfortunate ones
will be strangled.
The suspects, Micheal Eneji, his brother,
Emmanuel Eneji, Chukwu Chibueze, Gift
Princess, and Lekia Emmaden Isaac, were
apprehended by the Rivers State police
command days after the family of one of
their latest victims, Shola Olaseinde
reported the victim missing. Continue...

He was later found in a decomposing state in a
bush, close to a deserted pipeline area at Eleme, Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Few metres away, was also the decomposed body of another victim, who was later identified as Mr. Progress Benin Disi, a staffer of Shell Oil servicing company whose family had also reported missing since March 7, 2014.
On their arrest, the state Commissioner of Police, Tunde Ogunsakin told Saturday Sun that the command acted on the complaint by the family of one of their victims, Shola Olaseinde who got missing on March 26, 2014.
"When his family waited for him and could not
reach him, they lodged a complaint and I
instructed the officer in charge of anti-
kidnapping, CSP Akan to hunt for the missing
father and husband.
"Through intelligence gathering, we were able to arrest the gang of four men and a lady. They led us to Ebubu, Eleme, Rivers State, at an
abandoned shell pipeline borrow pit where the
corpse of Shola was lying in a decomposed state.
Few metres away was also the decomposed body of another victim, Mr. Progress Benin Disi, a staffer of Shell Oil servicing company."
Explaining the gang's modus operandi, CP
Ogunsakin said: "Normally they pose as women
on most of these dating sites. As soon as they
lure their victim, they would arrange a meeting.
The lady's duty is to meet with the men who are normally very rich. As soon as they get them, she will lure them to a secluded place and alert members of their gang. They will overpower the individual and tie the person up while they withdraw money from his account through ATM.
"I hope that Nigerians will learn a lesson from
this and realise that in as much as great and
useful information can be got on net, it is also an avenue for fraud."
At the police station, the leader of the gang,
Michael Eneji, a 27-year-old footballer confessed
to the crime and said that his gang didn't know
that the late Shola would not be able to escape
from the forest after dispossessing him of his
valuables.
In his words: "When I couldn't afford to pay my
school fees, I decided to go into love dating
scam. I dwell mainly on Badoo chat that most
Nigerian men visit regularly. I surf the net and
select pictures of black models and impersonate
them. As soon as they see this picture, some will send a message and I will reply. They will ask for my number and I will give them. I also have a Tecno phone that has a special voice prompt that allows a man to sound like a woman.
Once I establish a contact, I will go to the next
step which is to convince them that I will satisfy
their sexual urge.
"Pretending to be a big girl, I will tell them to
meet me at a Conoil petrol station, before the
trailer park along Eleme road while one of my
boys, Chibueze will go there and meet them as
my domestic servant and direct them to my
house. To convince them to come, I will claim
that I live in one of the estates alone and it will
be safer to meet there so that they will not be
caught.
"In their car, Chibueze will tell them to drive
towards a deserted place where we will lay
ambush. Dressed in police uniform, we will stop
them and demand to know what they are doing
in such a deserted place. We will overpower
them and tie their hands and legs while we take
their valuables, including their ATM cards.
"Two of us will go to the bank and withdraw
money from their account through their ATM. If
there is no money in the account, we will loosen
the rope and disappear. This will enable the
person to untie himself and go home."
According to Eneji, they have fleeced so many
men before they were arrested. "I never knew
that Mr. Disi and Shola did not escape till I was
arrested. I can only recall that both of them had so much money in their accounts, so we decided to keep them for some days to enable us to withdraw enough money from their accounts", he added.
On how he lured their latest victim, the suspect
said: "Shola showed interest in having an affair
with the lady he saw on my Badoo display
picture. He demanded to see her, so I told him
that I am free around 7pm and he told me that
it was the perfect time to hang out.
"At about that time, he drove to the spot with
his driver and Chibueze, who was on ground,
joined him. He directed them to the spot and we took over the car, tied him and the driver up. He did not have much cash with him unlike the others. When we got to the bank, I realised that he had about N4.5 million in his account.
Blindfolded, we took him further into the bush
and decided to keep him there for some days to
enable us to empty that account while the driver must have escaped from the initial spot where he was tied. Few days later, we were arrested. I never knew that he did not escape alive," Eneji narrated.
Continuing, he said: "The second victim, Mr Disu was not my contract. It was Elijah the leader of another group that contracted me to help execute the job. I became interested when he told me that the maga (the late Disu) works with Shell company. All I did was to lure him to visit by promising him good sex. I do not know if they killed him because of the huge amount that was found in his account. The truth is that we do not kill, but rob them of their valuables. We will sell the car, withdraw as much as we can from their ATM and disappear. We know that such crime might not be reported because the man will not tell his family or the police why he was robbed to protect his image. It is unfortunate that they died; we left them there still breathing. The only difference is that we did not loosen the rope so that they can easily escape."
On the role of the lady in their midst, Eneji said:
"She is my fiancée and I normally use her to
further convince our target to assume that we
are real. If the target insists that I should come
and see him, I will send my girl to go and meet
him. She will be the one that will lure them to
the spot where we can take over."
He also revealed that he is known in Badoo as
Cindy and Empress. "Once you search for
beautiful models on Google search, you will have so many options. If you want so many toasters, select the ones that expose their breasts. I am terribly sorry that these men died in the process.
We found out that it is easier to collect money in exchange for sex.
"I dropped out of school because my rich
relatives refused to help my mother to train us. I can only get money from them if I send a
woman to go and seduce them. I am terribly
sorry."
Another suspect, Lekia Emmaden Isaac,
corroborating Eneji's story, said that it was his
duty to tie victims up. "We have done that
severally and when we return, we will realise that they have gone back. I did not kill Mr Shola; all I did was to tighten him up very well so that he will not escape immediately. I was shocked when I heard that he was found dead. It is possible that snake attacked him since he was kept in a deserted area."
Yet another suspect, Chibueze, 17, who acted as Eneji's domestic servant, said his duty was just to take the victim to the spot where he will be attacked. "I did not participate in the main
robbery; all I did was to take the suspect to the
point where he will be robbed. To convince the
victim that I am not part of the set-up, they will
also beat me up and I will run away. After the
operation, they will give me my own share of the loot."
The only girl in their midst, Gift Princess claimed
that her service was only needed if there is need to see the man in question or speak with him further on phone. "During Shola saga, he called requesting that I should direct him. I then told him that my domestic servant will wait for him at the agreed spot. He later called back complaining that he was not comfortable with the route that they passed through.
Unfortunately, he was already at the spot and
my fiancée, Eneji and others took over from
there. I was only helping my husband to raise
enough money to pay my bride price," Gift
confessed.