A Nigerian man living in Salford who scammed nearly £100,000 out of four vulnerable women has been ordered to pay £2,000 to his victims.
Adewale Adewole, 31, of the Polygon in Eccles, stole cash from women after meeting them on dating website Match.com.
Posing as ‘Timmy Francis’ Adewole posted photographs claiming to be himself which were actually of Royal Marine Commander Joshua McGowan – who knew nothing of the scam.
After striking up friendships he claimed to run a bogus orphanage in Nigeria called the Hope House Foundation and asked his lonely hearts lovers for cash to pay for presents for sick children.
When one of the victims said she had no money, he asked her to send him an iPad and iPhone instead.
When the women stopped sending money they never heard from him again.
Adewole was arrested in October 2012.
Police found designer clothes, TVs and luxury gadgets worth thousands of pounds at the Eccles flat he shared with his wife and two children.
Adewole, whose previous address was Carrfield Avenue in Little Hulton, was jailed for four and a half years in December 2014.
A proceeds of crime hearing heard that a police auction for the confiscated items netted just £2,124, which will be split between his four victims.
