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Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by InvertedHammer: 12:32am On Jul 20, 2021
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They just had to find a way to tactfully insert Obinwanne and Onyeama into the story to muddle the crime.

Let's deal with this current ones now.


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Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by anambraamaka: 1:07am On Jul 20, 2021
Benefit boys
Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by ELKHALIFAISIS(m): 1:17am On Jul 20, 2021
Even after seeing all these they will still turn around to say nah Cubanna be the real 419... someone that has legitimate business nah 419.. which of his investment is not given him at least 2m every day after expenses , just multiply 2m after everyday to the number of his known investment and tell me how much he will be making in a single day not to afford all the luxury he want.... Awolowo hatred for Azikiwe are still in their bloodstream



Brown Roofians keep hating us oooooo
Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by Yankee101: 1:32am On Jul 20, 2021
Invictus!!!
Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by Geeman2006: 1:32am On Jul 20, 2021
Drug Peddler from SE being arrested made front page, hours later another thread of FBI busting fraudsters from SW posted by definitely someone from SE made front page.
grin Come , D thing don turn competition ABI wetin.
Funny thing is foreigners don't know the difference, they just know it's Nigerians.
Na we we know ourselves. grin grin
Lol...

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Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by illitracy: 2:04am On Jul 20, 2021
Please who have that picture of Demola Ajayi
Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by Franking: 2:04am On Jul 20, 2021
Afonja amaka.
Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by amuwo1980: 2:20am On Jul 20, 2021
He added the Allen’s name to make it seem as he is scared of been labeled anti afonja , crime knows no tribe , all the corrupt practices in Nigeria were learned from the white Europeans and Americans and other white ppl of different clime , I mean every crime including touts locking ur tires and shaking u down for 100 $ with same story of if we get to the office it will be higher , yes I saw that happen

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Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by Johel(m): 3:05am On Jul 20, 2021
TarOrfeeek:
Oh my Gosh


This same people have made going to USA a serious challenge.

They have made online business men and women to use another passport.

This people have made foriegners to hate Nigerians


What is wrong with the same people who always do fraudulent things and steal people's moneym


Truth is nobody do yahoo pass Yoruba people,yet they say Na Igbo like money pass...an Igbo man is a business man,not an internet fraudster...though nobody holy because Igbos sef get their own for body.

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Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by nnamdi640: 3:46am On Jul 20, 2021
Madam Abeke will not see this ones now, if it was Igbo, you will see her taking the news to the front page. The hypocrisy the woman practice is too much.
Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by Cousin9999: 3:58am On Jul 20, 2021
I can't honestly feel any way about this. The US cons African economies out of trillions or more every year. Maybe if they stop undermining progress elsewhere, they won't see so much stuff like this. And these guys pale in comparison to the horrors of what Asian and white criminals are doing in the US and globally.
Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by saajus: 4:34am On Jul 20, 2021
Let's call a spade, a spade. What is illegal is illegal. There are legal means to collect from them. Another unfortunate thing is that most of the money these bad boys stole will be injected back to the economy of the countries where they stole them from. You know our mentality na, you are not a big boy yet if you don't use foreign things. They buy expensive foreign watches, Champagne, designers, and go on vacations in the advanced nations. Technically, the advanced nations where the money is being stolen from are not losing much.
Cousin9999:
I can't honestly feel any way about this. The US cons African economies out of trillions or more every year. Maybe if they stop undermining progress elsewhere, they won't see so much stuff like this. And these guys pale in comparison to the horrors of what Asian and white criminals are doing in the US and globally.

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Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by bigcasava1(m): 6:49am On Jul 20, 2021
AntiBeEmCe:


That ur monicker suits you fine. Common English you can't write for pple to understand, but somehow, ur biggest problem in life is IPOB. No go suck cow milk take calm ur embittered soul.

Keep piercing our eyes with this cut and join jargons you writing here.
hahahaha u don kill the maggot amputee!

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Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by kechywillz(m): 7:17am On Jul 20, 2021
Why does after listing the person involved in crimes without Igbo people involved,at the end of the writing they will just include Igbo people into the article to exonerate themselves from not only people involved in the crime,tribalism will kill this country
Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by rhektor(m): 7:53am On Jul 20, 2021
murphyibiam15:
This exactly shows that crime knows no tribe
But I don't expect much fanfare on this thread since is not the tribe you all love to hate.

Funny a thing these ones too will be claiming working hard and smart. Inside life

This exactly is your own fanfare
Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by RodgersAkpafu: 8:05am On Jul 20, 2021
murphyibiam15:
This exactly shows that crime knows no tribe
But I don't expect much fanfare on this thread since is not the tribe you all love to hate.

Funny a thing these ones too will be claiming working hard and smart. Inside life
Dont mind them
If the names here were igbo names
You will see silly comments left and right
Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by colestephan86: 8:16am On Jul 20, 2021
NwaNimo1:
A syndicate of Nigerian unemployment fraudsters has been busted by the FBI and other law enforcement agencies in the United States, court documents seen by Peoples Gazette said.

The suspects, identified in court filings as Quazeem Owolabi Adeyinka, Ayodeji Jonathan Sangode and Olamide Yusuf Bakare, were broken up last week, with authorities saying they stole over $2.6 million in bogus unemployment insurance claims. shocked

The suspected Internet crooks used an address in Hyattsville, Maryland, to rake in about $1.4 million in unemployment benefits from California, Arizona, Maryland and North Carolina. At least $1.2 million of the theft was received from California’s Employment Development Department alone, according to court records seen by The Gazette.

They filed about 200 unemployment claims with California’s EDD using a single address on 75th Avenue in Hyattsville, and the department was deceived into approving 97 of the claims, according to a complaint filed by John C. Collins, a special agent with the U.S. Department of Labor. Mr Collins said the ring was jointly investigated by the FBI, Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General and state law enforcement authorities.

“Based on the size of the apartment, the investigation has concluded that a high number of UI applications associated with this address is unreasonable, and thus an indicator of fraudulent activity. “(Bank of America) records show that 142 UI claim profiles using the 75th Avenue apartment address issued a total of 175 prepaid cards from the states of Arizona, California, Maryland, and North Carolina,” Mr Collins said in the complaint filed in California.

There were several attempts to claim bogus unemployment insurance using the same address from Hawaii, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Texas, Washington and West Virginia, court records say.

The suspects filed claims that they had lost jobs as an accountant, dance therapist, computer consultant, librarian or other occupations, and used untraceable IP addresses, the complaint said.


Federal authorities said they observed that international scammers and con artists were taking advantage of the high volume of COVID-19 cheques being sent out to cushion the effect of the pandemic amongst Americans.

It was not immediately clear whether or not the suspects had contacted their lawyers. The development marked the latest in an increasing spate of arrests being made by U.S. authorities over fictitious unemployment claims and other fraudulent activities linked to Nigerians.

In May, the FBI held Bidemi Rufai, an appointee of Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State while trying to fly to Nigeria out of New York. He has since been remanded in prison.

In July last year, Ramon Abbas, widely known as Hushpuppi, was arrested in Dubai and extradited to the U.S. to answer years of Internet fraud activities targeted at Americans. He has also remained in custody.

In 2019, Nigerian businessmen Obinwanne Okeke of Invictus Group and Allen Onyema of Air Peace Limited were indicted on charges of multimillion-dollar fraud. Mr Okeke has since been convicted and sentenced to prison; while Mr Onyema’s case has been pending before a federal court in Atlanta, Georgia.

https://gazettengr.com/fbi-busts-nigerian-internet-syndicate-over-multimillion-dollar-fraud/

The western youths started yahoo yahoo.
Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by vickydevoka(m): 8:21am On Jul 20, 2021
Na Dem cause am.dem no Sabi work. Make Dem come Benin or Ghana come learn work. How u go use single address for hundreds of applications
Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by vickydevoka(m): 8:25am On Jul 20, 2021
esky158:
Na dis ones be the real benefit boys no be all those ones way the make noise on line but the money self carry weight oo $2.1m na so money take dey yahoo
Almost 900 million naira
Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by vickydevoka(m): 8:25am On Jul 20, 2021
esky158:
Na dis ones be the real benefit boys no be all those ones way the make noise on line but the money self carry weight oo $2.1m na so money take dey yahoo
Na 1 billion naira

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Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by Jonathan39: 8:38am On Jul 20, 2021
Internet Fraud? Give it to Yorubas. Nobody be their mate, they are criminals that don't want to sweat. grin grin
Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by angelfallz(m): 8:52am On Jul 20, 2021
Lol. Even if it were a big apartment block. It would still arouse suspicion if the number of unemployment claims exceeds the number of tenants in that big apartment block. Also, it is highly unlikely that every tenant would file for unemployment claims.
They did not do their due diligence.

Eillyeillz:



It was clearly stated up there "the apartment was a big one" I'm guessing it was a project block.
Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by poiZon: 8:53am On Jul 20, 2021
Emmypure:
Developers
They r the accomodators...
They r trying to accomodate crises in US
Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by caracas: 9:06am On Jul 20, 2021
LamidiCownu:

No body thief reach osu shitgbo in Nigeria
Yorubas are the biggest thieves in Nigerian history, go ask efcc them go tell you

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Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by Eillyeillz(m): 9:09am On Jul 20, 2021
angelfallz:
Lol. Even if[b] it were a big apartment block. It would still arouse suspicion if the number of unemployment claims exceeds the number of tenants in that big apartment block.[/b] Also, it is highly unlikely that every tenant would file for unemployment claims.
They did not do their due diligence.



Which is what happened, coupled with the fact that they had people filing for claims from other states using the same Address. I suspect Nigerians as well.

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Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by Frakintayo(m): 9:13am On Jul 20, 2021
Quazeem Owolabi Adeyinka, Ayodeji Jonathan Sangode and Olamide Yusuf Bakare have taken too much for the owner to notice. Everyday for the thief, one day for the owner. Let them dance to the rhythm of the music they played.
Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by Ochibaisik(m): 10:33am On Jul 20, 2021
The 3 major ethnic group s are the major problem of the Country.
Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by chiomzy86(f): 11:12am On Jul 20, 2021
chrisxxx:

Are done with your ranting?
Unfortunately internet gives us all anonymous protection that is why you could go unbridle with words.
I have said what I said with no regrets.
I repeat the Yorubas and the Igbos are the two arrowhead of crimes we have in Nigeria.

An illegal fulani immigrants like u is talking..a time will come when all fulani will be deported back to their misery unproductive aboard..their unintelligence is the reason Nigeria is still backward clamouring for self determination order of d day .crime rate high all because strategic positions are given to unintelligent quota system fulani immigrants
Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by mushystuff: 11:48am On Jul 20, 2021
Ofodirinwa:
lol, why did they include an unrelated Onyema in the story?

Na 'balanced' reporting na. How fraud and FBI matter wan sweet without Igbo man as target somehow? Even if na 10years ago, it is still 'relevant to 'balance' the matter! grin grin
Re: FBI Busts Nigerian Internet Syndicate Over Multimillion-dollar Fraud by smartNerd: 5:43pm On Jul 20, 2021
“Success usually comes to those who are too
busy looking for it.” — Henry David Thoreau

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