US govt offers $5,000 reward to locate Nigerian woman sentenced for romance scam

The United States government is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of 46-year-old Emuobosan Emmanuella Hall, a Nigerian woman who failed to report to federal prison after being convicted of romance fraud.
Hall, of Atlanta, Georgia, was indicted by a federal grand jury on October 23, 2026, for failure to report to the Bureau of Prisons to serve her sentence, the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana announced on Wednesday, October 28.
Hall, a Nigerian citizen and US permanent resident, had been sentenced to eight years in prison by US District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo for her role in a romance scam.
She is currently at large, and a wa...