47-year-old George Ugochukva Egwumba from Sipress and 33-year-old Prince Arrins from Sacramento were sentenced to California courts to more than 10 years in prison for participating in the Nigerian cybercrime campaign. Both men were found guilty of laundering money and fraud back in June this year.
According to the statement of law enforcement agencies, the arrested Californians are only two of the 80 suspects accused of a series of crimes, as a result of which at least $ 6 million were stolen from various victims. It is known that most of the attackers are in Nigeria and uses intermediaries to communicate with his American accomplices.
Most often, Nigerian scammers were the following:
Corprint of business email;
romantic scams;
by deceiving the elderly;
Fraud using malware.
And the intermediaries in the US helped the Nigerians receive and wash all the dishonestly earned through cryptocurrency, bank accounts in the USA and money transfer services such as Western Union or MoneyGram.
According to the police, Egwumba received information from the accomplices about bank accounts of victims and handed them to other scammers, after which he began to engage in fraud using malicious programs and other tools. Communicating with his accomplices through various chats, he received data from bank accounts, to which the stolen money was later transferred.
In turn, the fool helped his accomplices-Kibermachareniki receive and wash dirty money, opening fake bank accounts for business and transferring money to different cryptocurrencies.