{"id":66912,"date":"2023-10-07T22:55:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T22:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=66912"},"modified":"2023-10-07T22:55:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-07T22:55:35","slug":"in-search-of-love-german-woman-falls-for-white-nigerian-loses-n125m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=66912","title":{"rendered":"In search of love, German woman falls for ‘white’ Nigerian, loses N125m"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ms Petra Goschenhofer, a German, has told how her love story turned sour when a white man she was in love with, turned out to be a black man from Nigeria.<\/span><\/p>\n

She<\/span> said the love story started in 2008 when a man contacted her on Instagram, identified as Jeffrey Guiseppe, who claimed to be a \u00a0bitcoin trader, and offered to be her business partner, a proposition she reportedly declined.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, they continued having conversations regarding his career and family.\u00a0 Guiseppe claimed to be a Building Engineer based in the United States of America, U.S.A but with his roots in Rome, Italy.\u00a0 He told her that he grew up \u00a0in America where he studied and had\u00a0 a certificate in Building Engineering and \u201chis building projects spread all over the world including Dubai\u201d.\u00a0 He further claimed to be \u00a0a single dad with two kids.\u00a0 \u201cBefore long, our conversation gradually shifted from business to talks about families\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAfter a while,\u00a0 he told me he was in love with me and I told him I was married with kids, that a relationship was not possible between us but after a while, \u00a0I noticed he was very nice to me and at that time, I was in a bad situation, my marriage was in crisis and I was depressed, and my son was in a bad condition.\u00a0 I gradually fell in love with him, and before long, he started asking me for money. He claimed his building equipment\u00a0was\u00a0 held in Dubai and he needed money to clear it.\u00a0 He actually promised to pay me back in a matter of time and sent me pictures, fake passports and work permits which bore a photograph of an American named Jeffery Guiseppe, and with date of birth 10\/11\/1997. We later entered into a written agreement that he sent. I made payments through Western Union which he promised he will refund in a couple of days\u201d, she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Continuing, \u201c\u2019after some time, I asked for my money, but said he had not been able to clear the equipment because his bank account was frozen and pleaded with me to help him pay the next fee and I paid, with all payments made totaling \u00a0\u00a3130000.<\/span><\/p>\n

In another instance, he told me that he was ill and in a coma in the hospital.\u00a0 I was at this time speaking with one Mr Bah who called me on WhatsApp.\u00a0 He told me Guiseppe may die,\u00a0 that he needed to undergo a surgery and I financed it.\u00a0 After a while, I decided to investigate his identity \u00a0because I didn\u2019t believe him anymore, especially as he had refused to pay me the money I loaned him.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0I eventually told my husband who handed the matter to the police for investigations and the police found out that the phone number he gave me was on a server in Singapore and the address and passport were all fake. The police further said \u00a0it would be very difficult to investigate the case as the German law restricts investigations outside Europe\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

She further narrated that in order to seek help, she joined some women on Instagram who \u00a0have similar stories and they decided to find ways to help one another.\u00a0 \u00a0During the Covid 19 era,\u00a0Goschenhofer\u00a0said she had an opportunity to video call Guiseppe \u00a0and \u00a0realized he was not an American and \u201cat this point he apologised and claimed he is from Kenya\u201d. She said she further called and sent videos of their conversations and other documents to an officer in the German embassy in Kenya to find out who Guiseppe was and was told that his dialect showed that he is a Nigerian.<\/span><\/p>\n

She conducted further checks and found out his real identity on Facebook and Instagram. She also found out in one of their video chats that Guiseppe was driving a car with a Nigerian number plate.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSo, I decided to print and send all the evidence of pictures and documents to the EFCC for further investigation and prosecution\u201d, she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) took the matter to court and on Friday continued the trial of\u00a0one\u00a0 Wilson\u00a0 Daphey (a.k.a. Jefrey Guiseppe) before Justice Mobolaji Olajuwon of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on nine -count charges bordering on obtaining money under false pretence and money laundering.<\/span><\/p>\n

Daphey\u00a0allegedly manipulated and obtained the\u00a0\u00a3130,000 Goschenhofer, a German,\u00a0\u00a0with the assistance of\u00a0his accomplices:\u00a0\u00a0Evans Nnamdi Aguh, Christopher Chinedu Ajufo, Ifeanyi Enuma and Ojinanaka Kingsley Chukwuma who are at large.<\/span><\/p>\n

Goschenhofer narrated before the court, how she was \u201cdealing with an alleged white man who later turned out to be a black man from Nigeria\u201d.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All evidence of pictures, passports, work permits and receipts were tendered and admitted in evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Justice Olajuwon adjourned the matter to Tuesday, 10 October, 2023 for cross examination.<\/span>
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Ms Petra Goschenhofer, a German, has told how her love story turned sour when a white man she was in love with, turned out to be a black man from Nigeria. She said the love story started in 2008 when a man contacted her on Instagram, identified as Jeffrey Guiseppe, who claimed to be a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":56036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[5393,1351,6264],"class_list":["post-66912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-german","tag-love","tag-n125m"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}