A report broadcast by the Sept à Huit channel on January 12, 2025, highlighted a huge scam of which a woman was the victim.
The latter was defrauded out of 830,000 euros, or more than 541 million CFA francs, by a grazer.
To carry out his project, the scammer pretended to be actor Brad Pitt, establishing a climate of trust with his victim whom he took care to charm with his particularly tender messages.
“I liked the man I spoke with, he knew how to talk to women, it was always very well spoken. The words, the poems, I received excessive love songs. Everything a woman wanted, in fact, I got from that man.”said the victim.
Following the broadcast of the report by Sept à Huit, investigations were carried out based on the latest information.
These investigations would then have led to an idea of the identity of the grazer who would be located, according to different sources of information, in Benin City in Nigeria.
His place of residence thus revealed, it would therefore only be a matter of time for the competent Nigerian authorities to lay their hands on him.
Popularized in the 2000s in Nigeria, the phenomenon of “grazing”is a scourge that the government has been fighting for several years.
The Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), despite its multiple efforts to limit the number of victims, is slow to completely eradicate this scourge on Nigerian soil.
Their operating technique, often considered very unconventional, has been widely criticized by the Nigerian community and has sparked demonstrations on several occasions.
