NIGERIAN PRINCE SCAMMED HUNDREDS OF NEW YORKERS THROUGH FAKE EMPLOYMENT AGENCY

NEW YORK CITY, NY (The New York Post) – They got royally flushed. A Nigerian prince and his accomplice were busted for raking in thousands of dollars from a bogus employment agency scam, authorities said.

Osmond Eweka, 31, a member of the Benin royal family, and his co-defendant, Kamel McKay, allegedly duped more than 250 victims from January to June 2018, according to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.

The defendants allegedly targeted job seekers on indeed.com, promising to find them work, including as front-desk receptionists and hotel housekeepers, in exchange for a fee of between $300 and $700, court records show.

Prosecutor Catherine McCaw said the fee was supposed to cover the cost of uniforms, training and background checks.

“But in reality, there was no such job,” McCaw said at Eweka’s arraignment Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court. McKay, 27, was arrested last May.

After interviewing the victims and collecting their fee, the alleged fraudsters would send them to work sites, where they were turned away by employers who weren’t expecting them.

The confused job seekers were then unable to get in touch with Eweka, McKay or their bogus employment agencies.

The duo pocketed at least $54,000 in fees and didn’t provide a single job, according to prosecutors.

Eweka, who married an attorney in 2016 in an elaborate wedding ceremony in Nigeria, allegedly operated the scam out of an Empire State Building office under the alias Sean Jackson.

McKay, using the name Tyrone Hayes, met his marks at a rented office at 48 Wall Street.

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