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The California justice has just indicted 80 people for financial fraud on the internet and extortion. Most of them are of Nigerian origin. Fourteen of these defendants, residing in California, were arrested on the basis of an FBI investigation.
The indictment is a 145-page document in which California prosecutors detail for each of the implicated the long list of the misdeeds which are reproached to them. But what strikes you first when you read this act is the incredible list of false identities behind which the people involved, all from Nigeria, were hiding to deceive businesses , the elderly, or the credulous victims. false romances.
$ 6 million stolen
Some of the victims were stolen up to several hundred thousand dollars. In total, six million dollars were stolen and another forty million could have been stolen without the intervention of the US federal police. The victims are of course American, but not only, there are some in the whole world.
The whole affair was based on two crooks of Nigerian descent who lived in Los Angeles and who had developed the banking engineering essential to these frauds. Once on the bank accounts, the money was withdrawn in cash for laundering purposes.
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In announcing the dismantling of this network, the deputy director of the FBI pointed out that these criminal acts cost the American citizens billions of dollars every year and that they must be vigilant.