FBI Offers N7m Reward For Nigerian Fraudster Who Fled Atlanta Airport Before She Was To Start Eight-Year Sentence

The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has announced a $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Emuobosan Emmanuella Hall, a 46-year-old Nigerian citizen and U.S. permanent resident accused of fleeing before beginning an eight-year prison sentence.

Hall, who was convicted for her role in a romance-fraud scheme, was sentenced to 96 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Jane Milazzo in January 2026 and ordered to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons by March 25.

However, she failed to report as directed. Investigators said GPS data from her monitoring device showed her last known location was Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on March 24, 2026, where the device stopped transmitting.

Hall had reportedly informed her probation officer that she was scheduled to fly to Minnesota, where she was to serve her sentence, but airline records showed she never boarded the flight.

A federal grand jury subsequently indicted her on October 23, 2026, for failing to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons, and a warrant has been issued for her arrest.

Hall had earlier pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud mostly older women through romance scams. Court documents said members of the syndicate posed online as generals, philanthropists and entrepreneurs, built romantic relationships with victims and later persuaded them to send money under false pretences.

Hall and her co-defendant, Kenneth Akpieyi, allegedly used Le Beau Monde LLC to process victims’ funds. Hall admitted responsibility for $851,207 in losses, while Akpieyi was held responsible for more than $3.5 million and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

If convicted of the new charge, Hall could receive up to 10 additional years behind bars, consecutive to her existing sentence.

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