Crook and his alleged co-conspirators said to have used Discord to coordinate
The US Department of Justice has convicted a Nigerian national of participating in a business email compromise scam worth $1.5 million.
According to the DoJ, Umeti got involved in BEC scams as early as February 2016, when one of his alleged co-conspirators, fellow Nigerian national Franklin Ifeanyichukwu Okwonna, is said to have sent Umeti a phishing email template. The collaborators started to see success in 2018, siphoning $571,000 from a New York wholesaler and $400,000 from a Texan metal supplier.
Although the three were indicted in August 2022, Umeti and Okwonna weren't actually arrested until January this year. Part of the delay was because the two lived in Nigeria, but since the West African country has an extradition treaty with the US, this didn't shield them from prosecution.
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