Now I know I should pay more attention to the beware of 419 signs on houses, the 34-year old Land lady has successfully and smoothly defrauded 110 prospective tenants of 14 million naira.
The Landlady, Taibat Haruna, who lives at Iyana Ira along Badagry expressway Lagos, Began the scam by adopting a fake name Oluwakemi Ajayi. Early this year she began the construction of two buildings one at Alimi Street, Ira Quarters, Ojo and another one at Esa Square off Olojo Drive, Ojo.
For the building at Alimi street, which has five rooms and still under construction, she has collected rents from 75 prospective tenants, while she collected rents from 35 people for the building at Esa Square, which is a three-room and parlour self-contained apartment, meant for three tenants
When both buildings had been roofed, she sent messages to some estate agents to get tenants for the buildings and equally on her own was collecting money from people for the apartments using her false name, Oluwakemi Ajayi for all the transactions
“I started the buildings with little money and when I couldn’t complete them, I started collecting money from tenants with the intention of paying them back after the completion of the projects”, she disclosed.
“I collected between N70, 000 and N400, 000; the minimum was N70, 000, while the maximum was N400, 000. Some paid N90, 000; N120,000; N200,000; N240,000; N280, 000; N320,000 as the case may be”, she added.
On how she is going to refund the money, Taibat said that she would run around to get money and pay all the people. She didn’t say how she would get the money having spent part of it in settling debts owed by her and her jailed husband.
“I want to pay them back. I will run around to look for money to pay them all”, she assured
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