Two fraudsters have been sentenced after cruelly deceiving two women and scamming them out of over £200,000.
Harrison Ojobor, 44, and his accomplice Khalid Rajah, 73, have now been sentenced after a complex investigation into a crime known as romance fraud by the North East Regional Organised Crime Unit (NEROCU). Nearly £92m was lost by victims across the UK in 2021 at the hands of con artists who strike up relationships with people just to scam money from them.
This duo were found to be operating across the country in 2017 and were targeting vulnerable women who believed they were making real connections with the con artists. Two victims, one from Durham and one from Scotland, were contacted separately on Facebook in 2017 by a person named 'Scott'.
