US court sentences Nigerian to 15 years imprisonment for $10m fraud

U.S. District Judge David Hittner also sentenced Akinola’s accomplice, a 53-year-old American, James Campbell, to 90 months in prison.

Unknown to them, the money was fraudulently being transferred to a bank in Houston controlled by the defendants. From on or about January 2016 through November 2017, Campbell and Akinola were involved in an international wire fraud conspiracy that consisted primarily of Business Email Compromise fraud which targeted businesses and individuals that regularly perform wire transfer payments.

The victims, tricked into thinking such emails were from the bank or title companies, would then transfer the money to the accounts the defendants controlled, not knowing they were fraudulent emails.Those conspirators needed domestic bank accounts where they could send the funds stolen from the BEC fraud.

Stale news, reported on April 17, 2019.

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