Surviving Yusuf Olatunji Fatai

Sometimes in 2014 I received a message on Facebook Messenger from a user by the name of Ola Tunji on Facebook. Initially I did ignore the message as I don’t typically respond to strangers on Facebook. I tend to only communicate with my friends from high school and college during that time. So weeks later I decided to reply his message on Facebook. He introduced himself as “Teejay” he claimed to be a geologist and living abroad in a small country called “Slovenia” . He claimed to be well to do and alleged to have traveled to so many countries. He claimed to have been living abroad for about or around 15 years at the time on a student visa going to school. Turns out he never went to any higher learning institution, yet he claims to be a graduate of Peoples Friendship University of Russia, Queens College in Lagos, Nigeria which happens to be an all-girls school and many others. Neither of the schools has no record of him as a student there after many years. His Facebook page was filled with photos of all this lavish travel. So many photos of him in first class, pictures of him in Paris, Germany, Dubai, pictures of him in foreign airports, and soo much more. Little did I know all those photos were travel on another person’s dime or flights and travel accomplished by fraud. Many years later my response to his initial messages turned out to be the worst mistake of my entire existence. The messages exchanged quickly went from Facebook to Skype and WhatsApp. Typically he would call me on what’s app phone call quite a few times out of the day, at evenings he would call via Skype on video. He claimed to be a geologist initially but never worked as a geologist as I came to understand. He had quite a lot of time on his hands and seemed jobless to be calling me at all times of day and night. He lived in a one bedroom flat with a male roommate by the name of Femi. The country of Slovenia is small and located in the central part of Europe. Within a few months time after meeting him he was asking me to visit him in Slovenia. My mother said it isn’t a good idea to meet someone strange in a foreign country instead she suggested I meet him while she was in Nigeria at the time so that she can meet him aswell. So one thing lead to another and Yusuf purchased a ticket for me to travel from Atlanta, Georgia to Lagos, Nigeria . Yusuf planned to travel from Slovenia to Lagos, Nigeria at the same time to meet me in early 2015. Yusuf claimed to have a travel agent that handles his travel arrangements, unbeknownst to me there was never a travel agent just a fraudster within his worldwide criminal syndicate organization using unsuspecting persons’ credit cards to book his flights for many years in all the many countries he frequented. I learned this year in 2022 from someone experienced with the prosecution of criminals under Section 419 of the Criminal Code Act in Nigeria that people with Teejay travel history are heavily involved in drug trafficking and human trafficking. As I came to understand from first-hand accounts of people who know the true genesis of Yussuff or whatever his true name is; Teejay didn’t come from a rich family or well to do family in any way so there is really no explanation for his extravagant wealthy lifestyle that he displayed other than illicit means.