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🗓️ 11 April 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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In part 2, US Postal Inspector Cory McManus is hot on the trail of criminals running an elaborate romance scam network. After identifying dozens of victims, he arrests two suspects who've been acting as money mules. They quickly give up information about how the scam works and the name of the ringleader, Wisdom Onyobeno, who lives in Atlanta. Onyobeno's many victims finally get justice when he pleads guilty and is sentenced to 10 years in federal prison.
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0:00.0 | This week on the Perfect Scam. |
0:04.6 | I had credit cards maxed out. I says, I have nothing else to sell to make money and get money for you. |
0:11.4 | He says, well, you've got your home there. I says, the one I'm living in, and he says, yes. |
0:16.2 | He says, sell it. I says, and what am I supposed to do until you get over here and we can find a place? |
0:23.6 | Well, you'll think of something, you know, go rent a hotel room or whatever. |
0:27.6 | Go rent a hotel room. Oh, my God. |
0:29.6 | And so at that point, I got angry. Welcome back to The Perfect Scam. |
0:43.0 | I'm your host, Bob Sullivan. |
0:45.4 | When we left our story, federal authorities had just arrested two suspects for their part |
0:50.5 | in a far-reaching romance scam, one that has stolen millions of dollars from dozens of |
0:55.9 | victims. And those two suspects had coughed up a name, Wisdom Onibanyo, the man they say is the |
1:02.6 | kingpin, the mastermind behind it all, and he's in Atlanta. The two women who have been arrested, |
1:10.0 | Sidae Mills and Dominique Golden, have a lot to say about wisdom. |
1:13.6 | Not only is he directly involved in telephone conversations that manipulate victims into believing there is lover, |
1:20.6 | he finds money mules that way too. |
1:23.6 | But he would go to these clubs and he would recruit these women to do that for him. |
1:28.3 | That's U.S. Postal Inspection Service Investigator, Corey McMannis. |
1:33.3 | Wisdom was a very suave guy. He, you know, had a nice fancy car. |
1:37.3 | He had a range rover. He had Rolexes. He flashed a lot of money. |
1:41.3 | Women were attracted to him. |
1:43.3 | So Dominie Golden was the first one that he met at Wendy's nightclubs. |
1:47.5 | And she liked his lifestyle. |
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