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A federal grand jury indictment has named 80 Nigerian defendants charged with defrauding victims of millions of dollars through online scams. The FBI’s Nigerian email scam ring bust shows how ...
Obinwanne Okeke. Obinwanne Okeke (born November 9, 1987) also known as Invictus Obi is a Nigerian entrepreneur and convicted fraudster who is currently serving a ten-year prison sentence in the United States for internet fraud that caused $11M losses to his victims. [ 1] After initially pleading guilty, on February 16, 2021, Okeke was sentenced ...
Criminal charges. Conspiracy to launder money. Criminal penalty. 11 years. Ramon Olorunwa Abbas (born 11 October 1982), commonly known as Hushpuppi, Hush, or Ray Hushpuppi is a Dubai-based Nigerian Instagram influencer, self-acclaimed real estate mogul, and convicted felon. [ 1] He was sentenced in the United States to 11 years for conspiracy ...
The father of a young Pennsylvania man who died by suicide after becoming the victim of a sextortion attempt helped lead the FBI to Nigerian suspects charged in the case. The scam that led to J.S ...
Scattered Canary is a Nigerian fraud ring. During the COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020, the group used business email compromise and, according to the United States Secret Service, "hundreds if not thousands" of money mules to defraud U.S. state unemployment agencies. [1] A security firm that tracked the group said they started in 2009 committing ...
A Nigerian man living in Oklahoma City was sentenced this week to federal prison for committing an online “romance scam” against an Alabama woman.. In Oklahoma City federal court, Abdul Waris ...
Emmanuel Nwude Odinigwe, popularly known as Owelle of Abagana, [1] is a Nigerian advance-fee fraud expert artist and former Director of Union Bank of Nigeria. [2] He is known for defrauding Nelson Sakaguchi, a Director at Brazil's Banco Noroeste based in São Paulo, [3] of $242 million: $191 million in cash and the remainder in the form of outstanding interest, [4] between 1995 and 1998. [5]
Such so-called business email compromise scams are a growing cybersecurity threat, with the FBI reporting nearly 280,000 incidents costing companies almost $51 billion from 2013 to 2022.