Adetomiwa Seun Akindele, 37, a Nigerian national, has been sentenced to 71 months in federal prison for defrauding a Colorado woman out of $1.7 million in a romance scam, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Akindele posed as a wealthy Italian-American businessman on a dating website.
“Romance scammers are relentless and cunning, preying on trust and emotion to exploit victims,” FBI Denver Special Agent in Charge Mark Michalek said. “This was an egregious case."
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