10 things about Dallas, Georgia fraudster Badetito Obafemi

Badetito O. Obafemi is from Dallas, Paulding County, Georgia, United States. He is 5’10” tall and his registered weight is 150 pounds.

BADETITO OBAFEMI, president of GoEasyTicket and EasyTicketsTravel, was also running #RomanceScams and using victims as #MoneyMules. He stole hundreds of thousands of USD from elderly women by telling them lies. pic.twitter.com/FKGT47isum

— GarWarner (@GarWarner) December 6, 2021

BIOGRAPHY

Obafemi is a Nigerian-American fraudster. Here are 10 more things about him:

1. He attended Laro Grammar School in Osogbo, Osun, Nigeria.
2. He owned and operated two businesses, namely EasyTickets and Goeasy Logistics, out of his residence in Dallas.
3. In 2008, he graduated from the University of West Georgia in Carrollton, Carroll County, Georgia with a bachelor’s degree in accounting.
4. From September 2008 to March 2013, he was an administrator and an accounts manager at Alpha Nursing Services Inc. in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia.
5. His company EasyTickets was incorporated in Osogbo and registered on January 23, 2015. N. Adejare Adeboyin was a shareholder.
6. From June 2016 to March 2018, he participated in a wire fraud conspiracy and a money-laundering conspiracy that targeted victims in Taney County, Missouri, USA, in Northfield, Minnesota, USA and in Bergen County, New Jersey, USA.
7. His company Goeast Logistics was registered in Georgia on July 1, 2017 and dissolved on August 9, 2024.
8. In 2024, he admitted to his participation in a romance scam.
9. On June 5, 2024, he turned 42.
10. In 2025, he was ordered to pay his scam victims more than $300,000.

TIMELINE

One scam victim in Minnesota sent Obafemi and his co-conspirators $230,000 and another victim in New Jersey sent them $54,000. The conspirators met both victims on an online dating site.

2021

• On July 27, 2021, he was charged in a 14-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Springfield, Greene County, Missouri.
• On August 18, 2021, he attended a detention hearing before Magistrate Judge Russell G. Vineyard and waived preliminary hearing.
• On September 2, 2021, he was arrested the U.S. Marshals Service.

2024

• On April 18, 2024, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering.
• On August 8, 2024, he was arrested in Greene County.
• On November 1, 2024, American Express National Bank filed a breach of contract lawsuit against him in Paulding County.

2025

• On April 9, 2025, U.S. Chief District Judge Beth Phillips sentenced him to 24 months in federal prison without parole and three years of supervised release following incarceration and ordered him to pay restitution of $311,520 to the victims of his crime.