An infamous Nigerian love scammer who swindled mostly elderly women out of nearly $1 million is on the run after failing to turn herself in for the start of an eight-year prison sentence.
Federal authorities confirmed a warrant was issued Tuesday, April 14, for Emuobosan Emanuella Hall, a citizen of Nigeria who is a U.S. permanent resident who had been living in Atlanta, Georgia.
Hall, 45, failed to report to the Bureau of Prisons on March 25, when she was set to start her sentence.
Investigators said Hall in April 2024 was charged with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering as part of a federal indictment delivered by a Louisiana grand jury.
Hall wound up accepting a plea deal, proclaimed herself guilty in court, and in January, U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo sentenced her to 96 months in prison.
GPS data from Hall’s ankle monitoring device shows her last known location as Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on March 24. That is where the device was disabled. Hall’s probation officer did receive her flight information to Minnesota, where she set to serve her sentence. However, airline records show she never boarded the flight.
Phone records suggest she traveled to Dulles Airport just outside of Washington, D.C., where the trail’s gone cold.
Hall and her codefendant, Kenneth Akpieyi, was convicted in July 2025 after a four-day jury trial and Milazzo sentenced to 25 years behind bars.
Hall and Akpieyi, prosecutors alleged, “falsely represented themselves to be generals, philanthropists, or entrepreneurs who lived outside the United States,” according to a press release on her wanted status. “Conspirators would meet victims on Facebook, Instagram, and similar social media platforms, gain trust from the victims, and then ask the victims to move their conversations to WhatsApp or another encrypted platform.”
From there, “the perpetrators would foster a romantic relationship with their victims and then ask the victims to send money for fraudulent reasons, such as to help with charitable work or to assist sick family members.”
Hall and Akpieyi formed a company called Le Beau Monde LLC, which they used to “deposit victim funds into accounts held in the name of her company and then transfer those funds to accounts at other financial institutions, including foreign banks.”
All told, Hall tricked victims out of $851,207, while Akpieyi was found to have ripped people off to the tune of $3.5 million.
Akpieyi has been in prison since his sentencing.
If convicted, Hall faces an additional decade in prison as well as fines up to $250,000.
Anyone who may have any information about Hall’s whereabouts is asked to call 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324) or send information through the FBI website.
