2 Nigerian Men in Soup for Scamming London woman Off £1.6million Via Romance

Two Nigerians have landed in trouble after allegedly tricking a woman in the UK into handing over £1.6million by using a copy of pick-up manual and one posing as a wealthy engineer to win her affections.

The woman in her 40s from Hillingdon, north west London, thought she was in an online relationship with a divorcee father-of-one called Christian Anderson.

But little did she know she was actually being tricked by a gang of fraudsters including Ife Ojo, 31, and Olusegun Agbaje, 43, who duped her into 'loaning' them a staggering £1.6million, telling her the money was needed to free up inheritance so they could start a new life together.

Ojo and Agbaje were arrested at Agbaje's home in Hornchurch, Essex. When police searched Nigerian student Ojo's home in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, they found a copy of Neil Strauss's bestselling dating manual The Game with them, which reveals the skills and techniques used by 'pick up gurus' to seduce women.

They also used a book of love poems called For You, My Soul Mate: Loving Messages To Share With A Very Special Person, by Douglas Pagels to help them seduce the unsuspecting woman.

Agbaje and Ojo had been due to be sentenced today, after they admitted conspiracy to defraud following an investigation by the Metropolitan Police's specialist cyber crime and fraud detectives – FALCON.

However, the case at Basildon Crown Court was adjourned until January 8 by Judge Jonathan Black. Agbaje and Ojo were remanded in custody.