Business email compromise study prosecutions

United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Jude Uzochukwu Ifeanyi, 37, of Nigeria, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for wire fraud.

NPF arrested 11 alleged members of a prolific cybercrime network as part of a national police operation coordinated with INTERPOL.

The suspects laundered criminal proceeds through a pre-existing money laundering scheme involving multiple bank accounts in the EU, China and Israel.

Woman charged in federal indictment alleging she acted as ‘money mule’ who laundered funds for cybercriminals.

A Framingham man was sentenced yesterday for his role in a business email compromise (BEC) scheme.

Foreign national sentenced for victimizing U.S. persons through cyber-enabled fraud schemes.

American living in Brazil admits to business email compromise scheme.

New York man sentenced to 33 months in money laundering case.

US DOJ indicts 6 for $6M business email compromise scam alleged conspirators each face up to 40 years in prison.

Conspirators opened fraudulent bank accounts to receive money obtained from victims of business email compromise scheme and romance fraud schemes.

A resident of the UAE who orchestrated an $8 million cyber fraud scheme targeting several United States-based companies has been sentenced to more than eight years in a U.S. prison.

Nigerian national pleads guilty to $1.25 million business email compromise scam impacting U.S. company.

A Massachusetts man turned himself in to police over a year after attempting to scam a Long Island law firm out of $95,000, police said.

A Georgia man was sentenced to 25 years in jail after stealing more than $9.5 million through business and romance scams. Elvis Eghosa Ogiekpolor operated a vast network that spanned 50 business banks accounts and enlisted at least eight so-called “money mules” to shuffle around cash.

In May, authorities in the United States extradited a man from the United Kingdom for his alleged role in a multi-million-dollar business email scam. Prosecutors claim that Chibundu Joseph Anuebunwa impersonated corporate executives and sent emails to employees in hopes of obtaining money from them.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice arrested 74 individuals they claimed to be involved with business email scams. The effort, called Operation Wire Wire, netted suspects in scams that totaled $14 million and resulted in arrests of individuals in the United States, Canada, Nigeria, Poland and Mauritius.

The Nigerian Police Force and Interpol arrested three men they said were part of a business email scam that went by “TMT Gang”. Authorities claimed that TMT compromised half a million emails in more than 150 countries.

Eleven Nigerians were arrested by local police and Interpol for their alleged involvement in a business email scam that targeted over 50,000 individuals. Six of those arrested were supposedly members of Silver Terrier, a BEC organization that has evaded authorities for years.

"Graves admitted that she received a payment of $240,926 from ETS Contracting, Inc., located in Brooklyn, New York, as part of a business email compromise scheme.”

"A Georgia man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for laundering more than $4.5 million derived from business email compromise (BEC) schemes”

The investigation revealed that the business had received an email from a spoofed email address, which was very similar to a general contractor’s legitimate email address.

The judge sentenced the man to 84 months' imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release.

The scammers allegedly laundered over $20 million.

The Massachusetts man was ordered to pay $3,326,014.14 in restitution and forfeiture.

The man allegedly stole over $6 million.

Conviction comes in relation to 30 felonies which cost victims over $4 million.

Prosecutors allege suspect created over 1,000 fake businesses in scheme.

Defendents were living across the southern US, allegedly spoofed emails of businesses and banks.