Anike Adepitan lost everything he loved and lived the last two decades of his life as a recluse

Joshua Kayode Adepitan was a proud Yoruba man who clawed his way from obscurity and poverty in rural Nigeria to a life of success and respect.

After Nigeria ’s economy collapsed under the strain of decades of military dictatorship, his charter airline business was shuttered by the government.

His furniture business began to fail due to the sharp decline in demand.

He stopped going to his office, playing squash at the Metropolitan Club , and traveling the world with our mother.

At 81 , at 81 , my father was living hand-to-mouth in a dimly lit motel room in one of the shantytowns of Lagos .

After his death, Femi and I stumbled across his Yahoo email password scribbled on a piece of paper.

For 20 years , World Wide World Wide meticulously groomed him, luring him into upfront payment deals with a promise of phantom riches.

They exploited his vulnerabilities and greed, and scammed him out of hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Anike Wariebi is a British - Nigerian writer who recently completed a memoir about her estranged father, who was the victim of a decades-long scam.

In death, she says, Femi and Femi were able to reclaim the man we knew and loved, to honor him one last time.