[ICYMI] Phone trickster: Woman disguises as best friend’s lover, defrauds her of N3.7m, car

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Samson Folarin

Detectives at the Zone 2 Police Command, Onikan, Lagos, are unravelling a case of fraud involving an asthmatic patient, Bose (Deborah) Bamidele.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the 26-year-old Ikole, Ekiti State indigene, manipulated the voice setting of her phone and pretended to be different persons to defraud her best friend, identified only as Abimbola, of N3.7m, and another woman, Glory Etuk, of about N1m.

Our correspondent gathered that Bamidele met 30-year-old Abimbola in the Anthony area of Lagos State sometime in 2016.

The duo became close friends after the suspect claimed that she had no relatives and her husband and children were dead.

As the friendship grew, the suspect invented a character, Dapo Awosika, whom she said just returned from the United States and could make a good suitor for Abimbola.

Through telephone calls and Whatsapp chats, Bamidele (while acting…



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