Nigerian National Pleads Guilty in $4.1M Business Email Scam, Faces 20 Years
[NigerianEye - Nigeria] - 2/09/2025
James Junior Aliyu, a 30-year-old Nigerian residing in South Africa, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering in a U.S. federal court. Arrested in South Africa and extradited to the United States, Aliyu is the last of three Nigerian defendants in a business email compromise (BEC) scheme that targeted victims between February and July 2017.The scheme, which involved Aliyu, Kosi Goodness Simon-Ebo, and Henry Onyedikachi Echefu, saw the trio hack email accounts, send fraudulent wiring instructions via spoofed emails, and divert funds to drop accounts they (…)
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