A suspected Nigerian fraudster has been arrested for dressing as a woman to trick men out of their money.

Muhammed Abubakar said he routinely dressed in women’s clothes and go out with female friends to obtain money from men needing romance. 

He said his female collaborators gave him between N500 (D69) and N1,500 (D207) daily as his share of their loot.

Abubakar, who said he adopted the female name of Fadi, told Nigerian police that his female accomplices used to protect him each time any man wanted to have him, by telling the man that she (he) was in her menstrual period.

He ran out of luck last week when he was spotted in a local market where he went to buy an earring by another man who suspected that he was a man.

The suspicious man raised the alarm and he was arrested.