A Nigerian, Daniel Adekunle Ojo, who had spent less than 14 months in the United States, has been arrested in Durham, North Carolina and charged with fraud and identity theft offences


The offences stemmed from Ojo’s phishing scheme, using an AOL and GMail email accounts that targeted school districts in Connecticut and Minnesota in an effort to get employees’ personal information and file bogus tax returns.


His arrest was announced Friday by Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Joel P. Garland, Special Agent in Charge of Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation in New England

Following his arrest at his Durham residence, Ojo appeared before a U.S. magistrate judge in Greensboro, N.C., and was ordered detained pending his transfer to the District of Connecticut.


Prosecutors said a school district employeein Glastonbury, Connecticut, received an email in February that appeared to be sent by another employee, who asked for tax information for 1,600 school district workers. The worker who received the email then forwarded the information, which was used in the scheme to file 122 bogus tax returns seeking nearly $600,000 in refunds, authorities said.


Officials said the Internal Revenue Service processed about six of the fake returns andelectronically deposited nearly $37,000 in refunds to various bank accounts.


Investigators linked the email sent to the employee to Ojo, prosecutors said.

Officials also believe Ojo was involved in similar email schemes targeting school districts in Groton, Connecticut, and Bloomington, Minnesota.


In March, a Groton school employee emailed tax information of 1,300 employees in response to an email that appeared to be from the superintendent of schools. Authorities said the information was used to file about 66 fraudulent tax returns seeking about $364,000 in refunds.Officials said the fake returns weren’t processed because they had been flagged as being part of an identity theft scheme after school employees discovered the problem.

Prosecutors also said they linked the email account used by Ojo to a similar scam that obtained tax information for about 2,800 school employees in Bloomington earlier this year.


Eric Placke, a federal public defender in North Carolina who represented Ojo only forhis initial court appearance, declined to comment Friday. It’s not clear who Ojo’s attorney will be in Connecticut.


Authorities said Ojo entered the U.S. in May2016 on a visitor’s visa and failed to leave on his scheduled departure date in June 2016.

Daly urged the public to double-check links and email addresses before clicking on and responding to them, to avoid becoming an identity theft victim.


source:http://punchng.com/fbi-arrests-nigerian-adekunle-ojo-for-identity-theft/

Wahala dey.

How NCAN members would Storm this thread

Barawo

A swear I didnt come to check name..... Just wanted to read the newss.

Nawa o, must it be only us

Not disappointed

AFONJA WHY?WHY?WHY?

Eleniyan231:
Nawa o, must it be only us

Because it's always us that knows how to run this shiit called wire wire

just 14 months in US ? even FBI know say Afonjas are scammers


what will happen if he stays 2 years

afonja are naturally criminals including their yahoo yahoo obas

Evablizin:

Because it's always us that knows how to run this shiit called wire wire

Lol!

IgboticGirl:
just 14 months in US ? even FBI they Afonjas are scammers


what will happen if he stays 1 years

afonja are naturally criminals including their yahoo yahoo obas

The victim here likely have spent more than a year in the US

Crimes everywhere

Name checkers from d East will be so relieved. Wishing there's a way we can rid Nairaland off tribal jabs n hate speech.

What we say against each tribe does turn arewa or ipob threats to child play.

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End time people

Checked

Crime no pay...but he's better than the idiots and pigs developing Asia with white powder

Am not surprised

Ole ni. Don't sentence him o, that will be like sending him to an amusement park. No greater punishment than deportation. I'm sure he will pick life sentence over deportation back to his country.

Those who supported Buhari despite his criminal Certificate Forgery are the cause of Daniel Ade Ojo's ignorance.

Daniel Ade Ojo is not a criminal gauging from Nigerian standard.

He just came from a Nation where a Certificate Thief is made president so he's a victim of societal ruin.

frm skull mining to fraud.. Still waiting to see one good thing frm our afonja brothers.

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