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A Nigerian national, Charles Uchenna Nwadavid, has been charged for his alleged role in allegedly stealing more than $2.5 million from six romance scam victims and transferring their money to cryptocurrency s that he controlled.


The US Department of Justice announced this in a statement on Wednesday, April 9, 2025.

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According to the statement, Nwadavid, 34, of Abuja, Nigeria, was arrested on April 7, 2025, after arriving on a flight from the United Kingdom to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.


In January 2024, a federal grand jury in Boston indicted Nwadavid on charges of mail fraud and money laundering. Nwadavid appeared in federal court in Fort Worth, Texas on April 8, 2025, and was detained pending further proceedings.
He will appear in federal court in Boston at a later date.


According to the charging documents, “romance scams” recruit victims through ments for online relationships on dating or social media websites. Individuals perpetuating romance scams create fictitious profiles and then use them to gain victims’ trust through a purported romantic relationship. Perpetrators then direct their victims to send money or to conduct financial transactions involving other victims’ money under false pretences, such as an urgent need for money to secure a multi-million dollar inheritance or to pay for an unexpected hospitalization.
Between in or about 2016 and September 2019, Nwadavid allegedly participated in romance scams that tricked victims into sending money abroad.


In an effort to conceal his role as the recipient of the victims’ funds, Nwadavid allegedly used a victim from Massachusetts (Victim 1) to receive funds from five other victims around the United States.


Nwadavid then allegedly tricked Victim 1 in to ing her own and the other victims’ money to him through cryptocurrency transactions, and allegedly accessed s in Victim 1’s name from overseas, to transfer the victims’ funds to s he controlled at LocalBitcoins, an online cryptocurrency platform.


The mail fraud charge provides for a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release, a fine of up to $250,000 or twice the loss to the victim, restitution and forfeiture.

“The money laundering charges provide for a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, three years of supervised release, and a fine of up to $500,000 or twice the value of the property involved in the laundering transactions, restitution and forfeiture. The defendant will also be subject to deportation upon completion of any sentence imposed,” the statement read.

"Sentences are imposed by a federal district court judge based upon the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and statutes which govern the determination of a sentence in a criminal case.

"United States Attorney Leah B. Foley and Jodi Cohen, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Boston Division made the announcement. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mackenzie A. Queenin of the Criminal Division is prosecuting the case.

“The details contained in the charging documents are allegations. The defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.”

https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2025/4/nigerian-national-indicted-in-us-for-25-million-romance-scam-and-money-laundering-scheme-2.html

lets make America developed again

Romance scam, Imagine scamming a Benin geh with romance, Oyinbo women sef

zero8zero, Flangelo12, helinues, yarimo, LegendHero dem don Arrest that una neighbour Oga NWADAVID UCHENNA wey dey DEVELOP.

Uchenna!

If I catch you!

Scam no fit that name. Scam no fit the name obinwanne too...but then they are scammers

FOR THE FLAT HEADS













IT IS FINISHED

These people will always make headlines for the wrong reason.

Nothing new see their area father.below👇
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In the same vein FBI has also arrested scammer Mercy Odedeji for romance scam. Crime knows no tribe

https://gazettengr.com/fbi-nabs-fraudster-mercy-ojedeji-for-forging-academic-records-to-gain-u-s-university-ission/

These oyinbos are still falling for romance scam.

This is the end of all scammers both local and foreign.

Ummm. Nigerian need to stand for it people. We shouldn't be quick to judge our people because this white people are not clean either.

Trump is now trying to divert America attention away from the global news and economy meltdown they created.

Wow

Some people no dey learn why G go travel enter USA,same thing happened to one of my boy traveled to the USA without telling anyone he no use one month before them carry am.
I know another that's already a billionaire too person wey buy house for him parents for VGC that traveled to the USA himself dey chop beans,
Don't just read peoples story learn from it

Charles Uchenna Nwadavid



Na them,
They will never hear world,

How people fall for all this is beyond me

Abeg make yankee getat, when are they going to arrest the russians and chinese wrecking havoc on their financial system.

I thought some people claimed crypto is untraceable. ti a ba fa gburu, gburu a maa fa igbo”

Abloh:

https://www.lindaikejisblog.com/2025/4/nigerian-national-indicted-in-us-for-25-million-romance-scam-and-money-laundering-scheme-2.html

Uchenna Nwadavid

Kwezuenuuu!! *in Onyeka Onwenu voice*

Charles Uchenna Nwadavid, you are a thief and a disgrace to yourself and your family! Romance scanners are the lowest of the low because they target ordinary citizens with the promise of love, milk them dry and even when they have dried them out, they convert them to mules and ruin their credit!

Oga Uche why nah

Greencloud:
These people will always make headlines for the wrong reason.

these people, these people.. I hope you mean Nigerians when you say these people! Cos Muiz Tijani made headlines yesterday and I didn't see you call him these people

Yep, it does not matter whether you turn the money to crypto...the US government will still get you

Good

merits:
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Show ur Papa 🙏

Why he never make am

Akfrenzy:


Show ur Papa 🙏

Why he never make am

my papa no be scammer like yours.