Fake student scams female graduates in Nouakchott
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Kassataya
A man posing as a student in Algeria allegedly scammed several female high-school graduates who had come to Nouakchott, promising university enrolment, a scholarship, accommodation and a plane ticket in return for 1.5 million MRU. Their families paid before losing contact with him and filing a complaint, Le Calame reports.
A young man presented as a student in Algeria allegedly offered recently graduated young Mauritanian women places at an Algerian university, along with a scholarship, university accommodation and a return plane ticket. O.A.H. reportedly asked them for 1.5 million MRU to arrange this, according to Le Calame, cited by Kassataya.
The young women, who had travelled from elsewhere in Mauritania to Nouakchott to pursue their studies abroad, met O.A.H. at the beginning of September. He reportedly told them he had contacts who could secure the places, Kassataya reports.
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