An Australian woman, Yoshe Taylor was the victim of an internet dating scam run by a Nigerian drug smuggling syndicate in Cambodia, a special joint investigation by Fairfax Media and SBS's The Feed, reveals.
The international syndicate which entrapped her, targets Australian women with the intention of turning them into unwitting drug mule.
This report is how a notorious Nigerian drug trafficker and fraudster, who claimed to be a South African businessman tricked the lovestruck woman into smuggling heroin into Cambodia only for her to be arrested at the airport and subsequently sentenced to 23 years in prison. Unknown, to her, the backpack supposedly full of art samples he had asked her to bring for him contained heroin.