‘Contest winner’ scammers tried
27 January 2017
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court tried a Nigerian national and a Cambodian yesterday for their involvement in a scheme to steal $300 from a Cambodian woman through a fake promotional contest.
Judge Ros Piseth said 37-year-old Uchechukwu Vincent and 27-year-old Sarim Kunthea had been charged with fraud after being sued by Keo Sotheary, 28, and arrested on September 8, 2016.

“They were arrested by the police while coming to get $300 from the victim at a Wing transfer shop in Chom Chao commune,” he said, adding that police had seized the money during the arrest.

According to court documents, the pair called the woman and told her she won first prize in a promotional contest in September 2016. But Ms. Sotheary was told to send them $300 through Wing for “information and preparation for receiving the prize.”

Ms. Sotheary became suspicious when she received several follow-up calls asking her to send the money.
She filed a complaint with police, who subsequently set up a sting operation to arrest Mr. Vincent and Ms. Kunthea at a local Wing shop.

The two alleged scam artists, who had been living in an apartment in Sansom Kosal 5 village in Phnom Penh’s Chamkarmon district, denied the charges and said they had never called or spoken to the victim. They claimed a Nigerian friend named Ichinobi told them to pick up the $300 from the Wing shop before they were arrested.
“I did not know the victim. I have never called her or contacted her. I did not do anything as the court has accused and I would like them to release me,” Mr. Vincent said.

The court’s verdict is due on the morning of February 7.

http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34814/ ... ers-tried/

The guy on the right looks so happy. I guess he just won a contest. Let's send him some money.

A Nigerian man and a Cambodian woman were convicted of attempting to scam a woman through a fake promotional contest and sentenced to between six months and a year in prison yesterday.
Phnom Penh Municipal Court judge Ros Piseth handed down the verdict yesterday, sentencing Uchechukwu Vincent, 37, to one year in prison and Sarim Kunthea, 27, to six months.
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35227/ ... d-to-jail/

A much clearer photo of Vincent.


Nigerian Tryst Leads to Extortion Bid
Monday, 12 September 2016

What a pair of scammers. This is a report on the last job they got busted for - blackmailing and extorting an unfaithful wife. It is difficult to understand why the Nigerian Vincent Uchechukwu is not deported when released from jail. It is obvious that he is a professional lowlife.
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29608/ ... rtion-bid/

Also, pure speculation, but strangely enough for a Nigerian scammer, the recent photos of Vincent (in orange, with the hand over his face) look quite different from the Vincent in Superday T-shirt. One is a bulky build and the other seems much slighter, but one would presume that the fingerprints match, so must be down to prison weight loss and not to an identity exchange. Right (?)

a Nigerian?? Scamming people?? Theyve got the wrong guy!!!! surely?!

16 June 2017
Nigerian man's fraud sentence cut
A Nigerian convicted of fraud had his two-year prison sentence upheld, but half was suspended, at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court yesterday.
Chimere Meze, 37, a Nigerian tourist, was convicted of fraud and sentenced to two years imprisonment in absentia in February. He was arrested in April and requested a re-trial.

Judge Ros Piseth said Mr Meze scammed a Cambodian woman out of $300 in 2016 by informing her she’d won a grand prize but first had to pay him $300 via Wing to collect the reward.
“Because he often phoned to disturb the victim and ask for $300 from her, she filed a complaint against him to police,” said Judge Piseth. “Police prepared a plot to arrest him.”

Mr Meze’s accomplices, Nigerian tourist Uchechukwu Vincent, 37, and his Cambodian girlfriend Sarim Kunthea, 27, were also imprisoned for six months to a year during the initial February trial...
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39392/ ... tence-cut/

Good. I'm sure it was an honest mistake.

If I were a dogey businessman, let's just say for illustration a member of tof, I would be getting​ a Nigerian to do the pick up for me just in case, as nobody seems to believe a word that they say.