Love Sick New Zealand Woman Duped $267,000 By Nigerian Yahoo Boy

*sigh* Nigerians...

A lovesick New Zealand woman has reportedly been swindled out of more than a quarter of a million dollars by a Nigerian scam artist, aka yahoo yahoo boy..


$267k is about 53 million naira in Nigerian currency.
 The two met online before the Nigerian man, Akintunde Vincent Abiodun, posing under an English alias of Christopher Williams captured the woman's heart.

He convinced her to send $267,000, reassuring her that he had enough money to pay her back because he supposedly had access to a family heirloom: a gemstone worth more than $18 million.

She believed he was using the money to come to New Zealand and settle down with her.

The Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is investigating Abiodun, and he is set to be arraigned once the investigation is complete,