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Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by mamagee3(f): 12:15am On Jan 29, 2011
kenenath:

yeah rigth this Guy is a complete genius, he is 2 demn smart.

he beat the banks, people, FBI and even his colleagues men i hail him


believe me this Guy can never be caught cause he is way smarter them all of them!!!!!!



9ice 1

At least him no Kill any body talk more of to hold Gun mennn e no easy "T" got brains,
Don't be daft!

Defrauding the bank and people of millions and running back to your country of origin is anything except courage, bravery and insightness.

He got away with it cause he's probably hiding in his hometown of Anambra state in Nigeria but the interpol and the FBI have a way of getting dumb criminals like him

Believe me!
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by poweredcom(m): 12:25am On Jan 29, 2011

Authorities say they have not been able to track him down since. FBI said before they took the gang down, Onwuhara would spend about $50, 000 a night in a strip club up to three times in a week and usually stayed at various five star hotels whenever he made his frequent travels.
Onwuhara according to the Bureau has stashed cash abroad and also shipped many luxury cars to Nigeria- all paid for in cash. They believe he is hiding in either Canada; Miami, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; or New Jersey. His co-conspirators have been sentenced to various jail terms: Henry ‘Uche’ Obilo, 30, Miami: Sentenced to 88 months in prison. Abel Nnabule, 34, Dallas: Sentenced to 54 months on Jan. 30, 200

50,000 a night on strippers, woow a lot of puccy galore, dat why he gat herpes, hehehe, na wa oo that Guy must be a fool, 50,000, oh my Gad
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by SEFAGO(m): 12:27am On Jan 29, 2011
trust naija man. He could have spent the time screwing tons of girls in the red light district in amsterdam instead of playing Igwe in America.
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by SEFAGO(m): 12:30am On Jan 29, 2011
I still cannot believe the sentences they gave these guys- are they for real? I might as well go into crime

I will get laid significantly, drive masseratis and then go to jail for just 3-4 years for pleading guilty.

Man phuck education
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by dayokanu(m): 12:31am On Jan 29, 2011
mama-gee:

Don't be daft!

Defrauding the bank and people of millions and running back to your country of origin is anything except courage, bravery and insightness.

He got away with it cause he's probably hiding in his hometown of Anambra state in Nigeria but the interpol and the FBI have a way of getting dumb criminals like him

Believe me!


kiss kiss kiss kiss
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by fstranger1: 12:32am On Jan 29, 2011
poweredcom:

50,000 a night on strippers, woow a lot of puccy galore, dat why he gat herpes, hehehe, na wa oo that Guy must be a fool, 50,000, oh my Gad

Whats wrong with that?

These are not Naija puccys, we are talking about international puccies here.

I dont mind paying 100000 dools for those puccies

My guy, if you sef see one of those puccies, you go fear.
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by mamagee3(f): 12:34am On Jan 29, 2011
hustla:

This guy na ma scammer mentor, hes like robinhood to moi! read errthing bout him mayn,a report actuali says his pops too was in the bness from way back buh he stopped and diverted the money into business, wot hes doing isnt new,jus that some people are more underground than he is, simple! grin
Yeah, he's your mentor!

You both gullible scamming, uneducated dimwitts need to be ostracized from society. . .

How in the world can someone in his right mind hail this thief as a mentor?
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by mamagee3(f): 12:35am On Jan 29, 2011
dayokanu:

kiss kiss kiss kiss
Get over yourself! cool
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by fstranger1: 12:36am On Jan 29, 2011
mama-gee:

Get over yourself! cool

You are really cute?

Are you the white girl in your profile?
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by asha80(m): 12:38am On Jan 29, 2011
mama-gee:

Don't be daft!

Defrauding the bank and people of millions and running back to your country of origin is anything except courage, bravery and insightness.

He got away with it cause he's probably[b] hiding in his hometown of Anambra state[/b] in Nigeria but the interpol and the FBI have a way of getting dumb criminals like him

Believe me!



he is from abia state.
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by fstranger1: 12:40am On Jan 29, 2011
asha 80:


he is from abia state.

DOnt get bogged down on the details

Abia or Anambra whatz the difference?
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by asha80(m): 12:50am On Jan 29, 2011
never knew he was going to end up like this after his days in marist brothers uturu okigwe
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by AkoEja: 12:51am On Jan 29, 2011
To me, this guy is a complete not-so-smart person; nothing he has done can make me call him a genius. He is just a thief!
If you are good with technology, there is nothing special in what he did.

I am not a criminal, and will never use my knowledge to defraud anyone. If I did, I would surpass him easily.
The only reason he was so successful is because he a complete criminal, with no iota of conscience; which allows him to operate as freely as he wanted

No one should be proud of such a negative personality  . He is not a genius, but a fool! And a fool and his money are soon parted, you will see
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by Eziachi: 12:54am On Jan 29, 2011
Dis Guy:

I can just imagine him being labelled smart and industrious by his village chief

with the number of scam originating in the country FBI will have undercover agents in every nigerian village looking for idle mansions

Of course he is smart! Only that it was been channelled in the wrong direction. Don't tell me that you as a person can pull of that even if its legal or bread and butter?
These are brains wasted in Nigeria culture of quick buck.
This is not our Igbo culture and ethics. Our ethics from the day God created us has always been hardwork, ability to turn a penny into a Pound with creativity. confidence and energy to spare. But we have lost it inside Nigeria cesspit, where those ethics counts against you, as we watch them become rich overnight without having to sweat a drop.
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by dayokanu(m): 1:01am On Jan 29, 2011
mama-gee:

Get over yourself! cool

Let me get on you before thinking of getting over myself kiss
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by SEFAGO(m): 1:02am On Jan 29, 2011
^^^

Hmmm Igbo kwenu Eh, Kwenu Eh, Kwezeonu

you guys have man Ezes and Igwes of fraud sha

@fstranger

No chick is worth 100,000 dollars except she has a golden puccy and I dont mean blonde girls
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by redsun(m): 1:09am On Jan 29, 2011
Dic-k chenny is among d richest and well respected men in d world,yet he is a convict and he teaches u morals. Fcking nigger.Some men are above everyday morals and d law and we think it is normal
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by Eziachi: 1:10am On Jan 29, 2011
SEFAGO:

^^^

Hmmm Igbo kwenu Eh, Kwenu Eh, Kwezeonu

you guys have man Ezes and Igwes of fraud sha

@fstranger

No chick is worth 100,000 dollars except she has a golden puccy and I dont mean blonde girls

Don't get cocky, Abiola's of this world had been doing it for donkey years. Except this time you can do it from your mum's kitchen with a little laptop/internet connection, if you know what you are doing.
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by redsun(m): 1:15am On Jan 29, 2011
Nigger wise up,if u can't beat dem,u join dem.D world is free for all,just do it.
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by EzeUche2(m): 1:18am On Jan 29, 2011
If you can't beat them, then join them. I haven't heard that term for a while. The Japanese used that ideology better than anyone before them.
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by Ivynwa(f): 1:49am On Jan 29, 2011
redsun:

Nigger wise up,if u can't beat dem,u join dem.D world is free for all,just do it.
Baby if we all join them, you may wake up tommorrow to discover that all you have toiled for and saved in some bank is gone. Let us heal our world and make it a better place like Michael sang.

fstranger1:

Whats wrong with that?
These are not Naija puccys, we are talking about international puccies here.
I dont mind paying 100000 dools for those puccies
My guy, if you sef see one of those puccies, you go fear.

Oh me Lord! Fstranger! You sure is the original  BMF!
Big Meech,
Larry Hoover
Whippin' work, hallelujah
One nation
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Ivynwa sings on as she leaves the thread
grin grin cool grin grin
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by redsun(m): 2:03am On Jan 29, 2011
What ever is ur faith in this world is ur faith but never let go.He has played his faith out and it may ve to swallow him but that is his faith
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by DualCore1: 2:20am On Jan 29, 2011
What was the inspiration behind the naming of this on the homepage as the "worst scammer"?
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by Winnergal(f): 4:52am On Jan 29, 2011
I won't be surprised if he has some babalawo supplying him with some juju! cheesy grin
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by bignaija(m): 5:16am On Jan 29, 2011
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Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by Ranoscky(m): 5:32am On Jan 29, 2011
mama-gee:

Don't be daft!

Defrauding the bank and people of millions and running back to your country of origin is anything except courage, bravery and insightness.

He got away with it cause he's probably hiding in his hometown of Anambra state in Nigeria but the interpol and the FBI have a way of getting dumb criminals like him

Believe me!

Dumb criminal ? ? ? shocked. . . .WONDERFUL !!!

This is where you made your almighty believable FBI look 'cheap and silly' in searching for a "Dumb" criminal for more than 4yrs, when the so called under-rated NPF can track down a non-dumb criminal in less than a month!

Wake up girl.

SEFAGO:

I still cannot believe the sentences they gave these guys- are they for real? I might as well go into crime

I will get laid significantly, drive masseratis and then go to jail for just 3-4 years for pleading guilty.

Man phuck education
Lolz.

fstranger1:

Whats wrong with that?

These are not Naija puccys, we are talking about international puccies here.

I dont mind paying 100000 dools for those puccies

My guy, if you sef see one of those puccies, you go fear.
TOTO NA TOTO abeg, forget story jare!
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by seanet03: 5:44am On Jan 29, 2011
My ibo brothers always come first in any crime competition. Culture of fraud.
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by rhymz(m): 7:44am On Jan 29, 2011
Safego and fstranger com'on guyz! This is not your usual fraudulent scheme by Nigerians, I too do not think you need any type of smarts to pull those off-all they need is a gullible, greedy and equally exploitative mur4cka to fall for em- but Tobe's scheme has genius written all over it. No matter what you think, what he did takes more than a flawed banking & credit system to achieve. Let me break it down a little;
1. This guy's methods are systematic, he gathers information as well as the account details of his victims.
2.This dude & his crew then profile their victims by making serious tasking online research using databases & professional websites to harvest & piece together information.
3.This profile is then given to a second group who call the banks and poses as the account holders.
Now this is where I see the genius-"Onwuhara orchestrated his swindles using information about homeowners that is widely available online. In fragments, this information is innocuous. When assembled properly, it can be used like an electronic skeleton key to get into almost any credit account"-the fact he was able to do it? Mehn! No wonder he was described as a digital scavenger of extraordinary creativity & guile.Even looking at his background tells you the guy has just as good education as any privileged kid would, he aint your average yahoo boy that sends silly mails, Tobe is very smart & has a mind that can grasp very complex concepts.
Now let's take a look at how detailed & elaborate his scheme was;
1.he'd collect mortgage information on married couples with million-dollar homes. They qualified for high HELOCs. He'd find lease or loan papers through public databases and pay sites, then use Photoshop to grab homeowners' signatures off documents.
2.Next, he'd build a profile of the victim by paying for a background search through skip-tracing sites. That would give him birth dates, Social Security numbers, names of relatives, previous addresses, employment histories, and more. To get a mother's maiden name he would use Ancestry.com. (Tell me this dude is not thorough and savvy?)
3.Profile in hand, he would run a credit check on victims through annualcreditreport.com, a website set up by the big three credit-reporting agencies. (Of course it takes a knowledgeable person to understand those boring charts & numerous figures flying up & down in such reports). Onwuhara had discovered a flaw in the Experian portion of the site, which screened users with a personalized security question and several multiple-choice answers. Users had to click on the correct answer to proceed. But when Onwuhara refreshed his browser, he found that the site replaced certain answers with new ones. Clearly, these were red herrings. Onwuhara knew the correct answer to the security question would appear persistently on screen as he refreshed. Enough refreshing would eventually reveal the true answer and allow Onwuhara to access reports. (A spokesman for Experian says that the company is cooperating with law enforcement authorities and that "since this case we have refined our security protocol."wink "hahahahahaha. . . . .lame excuse to cover up their lapses, it took an extraordinary Tobe to help them realize that"
The reports provided Onwuhara with details about the victim's HELOC. He preferred credit union HELOCs: They were soft targets.
4. At this point artistry came into play. Onwuhara used a phone service called SpoofCard to make any number he wanted appear in a caller ID. This was key to his scam. With SpoofCard, Onwuhara could fool financial institutions into thinking his call originated from the victim's phone. Onwuhara knew the system. He knew the questions he'd get. Usually he had the answers, along with account numbers, balances, and passwords. Altering his gravelly voice like a professional actor, he could switch ethnicity, age, and accent on a whim. A customer service rep was easy prey. That boy is your avareage 27yrs old jor!
5. Once in, Onwuhara would wire HELOC money out of the country. Financial institutions faxed wire transfer requests to his e-fax account, which converted faxes to e-mails. After attaching Photoshopped signatures and phony headers, he would send the forms back. The money would be wired to banks in Asia where mules that Onwuhara had recruited would withdraw the money, take a cut, and redeposit the funds into other accounts or with hawalas, informal money brokers who ask few questions. . . Kid has got brains mehn!
6.Finally, the money would be wired back to the U.S. into accounts Onwuhara controlled. At one point he received a 40- million-euro transfer. He would further launder the money by depositing it in casinos and cashing out in checks days later. He would also buy ultra-expensive luxury cars, drive them for a few months, then ship them to Nigeria, where they would be resold at a steep markup. Onwuhara was clearing about $7 million every two weeks, according to the FBI.
7. The mastermind shared few details of the scam, even with his inner circle. Precious Matthews and Paula Gipson knew the most, mainly because Onwuhara couldn't impersonate women on the phone. He needed them to pose as female account holders and had to give them more information. Obviously, dude has been reading Robert Green's 48 Laws of power.
Any that wants to downplay this is doing so from the standpoint of pure, undiluted Jelousy, like Riley will say,
"you are just mad cos u didn't think of it first"
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by Nobody: 9:13am On Jan 29, 2011
rhymz:


1. This guy's methods are systematic, he gathers information as well as the account details of his victims.
2.This dude & his crew then profile their victims by making serious tasking online research using databases & professional websites to harvest & piece together information.
3.This profile is then given to a second group who call the banks and poses as the account holders.
Now this is where I see the genius-"Onwuhara orchestrated his swindles using information about homeowners that is widely available online. In fragments, this information is innocuous. When assembled properly, it can be used like an electronic skeleton key to get into almost any credit account"-the fact he was able to do it? Mehn! No wonder he was described as a digital scavenger of extraordinary creativity & guile.Even looking at his background tells you the guy has just as good education as any privileged kid would, he aint your average yahoo boy that sends silly mails, Tobe is very smart & has a mind that can grasp very complex concepts.
Now let's take a look at how detailed & elaborate his scheme was;
1.he'd collect mortgage information on married couples with million-dollar homes. They qualified for high HELOCs. He'd find lease or loan papers through public databases and pay sites, then use Photoshop to grab homeowners' signatures off documents.
2.Next, he'd build a profile of the victim by paying for a background search through skip-tracing sites. That would give him birth dates, Social Security numbers, names of relatives, previous addresses, employment histories, and more. To get a mother's maiden name he would use Ancestry.com. (Tell me this dude is not thorough and savvy?)
3.Profile in hand, he would run a credit check on victims through annualcreditreport.com, a website set up by the big three credit-reporting agencies. (Of course it takes a knowledgeable person to understand those boring charts & numerous figures flying up & down in such reports). Onwuhara had discovered a flaw in the Experian portion of the site, which screened users with a personalized security question and several multiple-choice answers. Users had to click on the correct answer to proceed. But when Onwuhara refreshed his browser, he found that the site replaced certain answers with new ones. Clearly, these were red herrings. Onwuhara knew the correct answer to the security question would appear persistently on screen as he refreshed. Enough refreshing would eventually reveal the true answer and allow Onwuhara to access reports. (A spokesman for Experian says that the company is cooperating with law enforcement authorities and that "since this case we have refined our security protocol."wink "hahahahahaha. . . . .lame excuse to cover up their lapses, it took an extraordinary Tobe to help them realize that"
The reports provided Onwuhara with details about the victim's HELOC. He preferred credit union HELOCs: They were soft targets.
4. At this point artistry came into play. Onwuhara used a phone service called SpoofCard to make any number he wanted appear in a caller ID. This was key to his scam. With SpoofCard, Onwuhara could fool financial institutions into thinking his call originated from the victim's phone. Onwuhara knew the system. He knew the questions he'd get. Usually he had the answers, along with account numbers, balances, and passwords. Altering his gravelly voice like a professional actor, he could switch ethnicity, age, and accent on a whim. A customer service rep was easy prey. That boy is your avareage 27yrs old jor!
5. Once in, Onwuhara would wire HELOC money out of the country. Financial institutions faxed wire transfer requests to his e-fax account, which converted faxes to e-mails. After attaching Photoshopped signatures and phony headers, he would send the forms back. The money would be wired to banks in Asia where mules that Onwuhara had recruited would withdraw the money, take a cut, and redeposit the funds into other accounts or with hawalas, informal money brokers who ask few questions. . . Kid has got brains mehn!
6.Finally, the money would be wired back to the U.S. into accounts Onwuhara controlled. At one point he received a 40- million-euro transfer. He would further launder the money by depositing it in casinos and cashing out in checks days later. He would also buy ultra-expensive luxury cars, drive them for a few months, then ship them to Nigeria, where they would be resold at a steep markup. Onwuhara was clearing about $7 million every two weeks, according to the FBI.
7. The mastermind shared few details of the scam, even with his inner circle. Precious Matthews and Paula Gipson knew the most, mainly because Onwuhara couldn't impersonate women on the phone. He needed them to pose as female account holders and had to give them more information. Obviously, dude has been reading Robert Green's 48 Laws of power.
Any one that wants to downplay this is doing so from the standpoint of pure, undiluted Jelousy, like Riley will say,
"you are just mad cos u didn't think of it first"


That is exactly what it is.
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by kikuyu1(m): 9:30am On Jan 29, 2011
Tobie is smart ,undoubtedly. The painstaking way he committed his crimes shows he's not lacking in brainpower. But his behaviour,bigtime flossing in 300,000$ limos and strip club thunderstorms reveals what he is as unimpeachably as a DNA scan. Your boy is a - A PROFESSIONAL NIGGER ;he could have started up a world class financial services business,initiated an agriexpo biz back home,built orphans homes,revamped the embarrassment of Nollywood etc.etc.
Instead he chose to live the life of an ugly adolescent millionaire-but then again maybe thats what he is deep inside. His actions and the hysterical approbation of Naijjans shows why with only coffee,tea,flowers,horticulture,tourism and real estate Kenya is 10 places ahead of you guys on the UNDP HDI list.
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by AroDiva: 12:28pm On Jan 29, 2011
wow!! a lote of hate for a particular tribe going on in this trade and we call oyibos racists! I no fit shout!!! embarassed
Re: Tobechi Onwuhara: The King Of Home Equity Fraud by favouredjb(f): 12:41pm On Jan 29, 2011
fstranger1:

Are you going to recommend him for a chieftaincy title or what?

grin grin grin grin grin

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