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Gold Scammer from Nairobi Kenya. NAME: Nashon Otieno Akutha. SERIAL GOLD SCAMMER BACK IN LOCK-UP DAYS AFTER RELEASE ON BOND. Nashon Otieno Angudha, a key suspect in a series of frauds affecting local and foreign gold merchants has today been arraigned at Milimani Law Courts, after he was arrested Tuesday evening for obtaining Sh35 million from a businessman in a fake gold scam. In the fraudulent scheme orchestrated on diverse dates between July 13 and October 18, 2023, the 28-year-old is accused of swindling the victim out of the millions by luring him to a purchase and export deal of 100kg of gold to Dubai, the amount being fees for transportation and insurance. After parting with the money which was paid in US dollars ($250,000), nine gold bars given to the victim as collateral were subjected to a test at the Ministry of Mining, but none of them exhibited even a trace of gold element. Nashon was charged with conspiracy to commit a felony and obtaining money by false pretenses.