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Nigerian, Yoruba: Other names: Hushpuppi, Hush, Ray Hushpuppi, The Billionaire Gucci Master: Occupation: Instagram influencer: Years active: 2011–2020: Known for: Alleged business email compromise, scam, and money laundering: Criminal charges: Conspiracy to launder money: Criminal penalty: 11 years
Organised crime in Nigeria includes activities by fraudsters, bandits (such as looting and kidnappings on major highways), drug traffickers and racketeers, which have spread across Western Africa.
Obinwanne Okeke (born November 9, 1987) also known as Invictus Obi is a Nigerian entrepreneur and convicted fraudster who is currently serving a ten-year prison sentence in the United States for internet fraud that caused $11M losses to his victims. After initially pleading guilty, on February 16, 2021, Okeke was sentenced to ten years in prison.
Although Nigeria is most often the nation referred to in these scams, they mainly originate in other nations. Other nations known to have a high incidence of advance-fee fraud include Ivory Coast, [7] Togo, [8] South Africa, [9] the Netherlands, [10] Spain, [11] and Jamaica. [12] [13]
Nick Leeson, English trader whose unsupervised speculative trading caused the collapse of Barings Bank [43] James Paul Lewis, Jr., ran one of the biggest ($311 million) and longest running Ponzi schemes (20 years) in U.S. history [44] Victor Lustig, con artist known as "the man who sold the Eiffel Tower ".
They used the widely known Nigerian email scams, as well as social media, dating websites, and phone numbers to target US citizens. [13] In 2021-2022, Interpol arrested 75 suspected members of the Black Axe for trying to wire one-million dollars over many bank accounts.
Get-rich-quick schemes. Get-rich-quick schemes are extremely varied; these include fake franchises, real estate "sure things", get-rich-quick books, wealth-building seminars, self-help gurus, sure-fire inventions, useless products, chain letters, fortune tellers, quack doctors, miracle pharmaceuticals, foreign exchange fraud, Nigerian money scams, fraudulent treasure hunts, and charms and ...
Emmanuel Nwude Odinigwe, popularly known as Owelle of Abagana, is a Nigerian advance-fee fraud expert artist and former Director of Union Bank of Nigeria. He is known for defrauding Nelson Sakaguchi, a Director at Brazil's Banco Noroeste based in São Paulo , [3] of $242 million: $191 million in cash and the remainder in the form of outstanding ...
Nigerian fraudsters, people who have used intentional deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right.
Current status. Open. 419eater.com is a scam baiting website which focuses on advance-fee fraud. The name 419 comes from "419 fraud", another name for advance fee fraud, and itself derived from the relevant section of the Nigerian criminal code. The website founder, Michael Berry, goes by the alias Shiver Metimbers.