Eagle police arrested a 38-year-old Nigerian man, Babajide Ayowole Ogunnubi, on felony racketeering and theft charges for his part in a classified ad scam involving a local newspaper and a Walmart in Beaumont, Texas.

Ogunnubi allegedly convinced Linda Lazard Franks, 56, of Beaumont, to sign for money orders and other financial transactions and then give the money to him.

Franks told Eagle police that Ogunnubi told her that he had lots of friends in the Houston and Beaumont areas who would send money to him.

Eagle police say Ogunnubi stole at least $3,124.56 between Oct. 22 and Nov 28, 2017. He is being held on $100,000 bond.



For her part in all this, Franks faces five felonies. She is accused of stealing more than $28,000 in nine days through 28 fraudulent transactions, some of them from Eagle County victims, Eagle police say.
Franks was arrested Jan. 6 and remains in the Eagle County jail on $30,000 bond.
Below is Police statement on how it all happened:
Late morning Nov. 28, 2017, Eagle Police Officer Bryce Hinton was called to Eagle's Community Bank of Colorado to meet with two women who said they had been scammed.
One of the women said she answered a classified ad in the Vail Daily asking for a part-time personal assistant to do some shopping and other errands. "Send resume to executiveoffice999@gmail.com ," the ad said.
Meanwhile, foreign hackers broke into the Google account of a Chino, California, man, Todd Michael McNitt, and used McNitt's stolen identity to buy the classified ad to run their scams, police said.
Hinton tracked McNitt to Chino Hills, California, where McNitt told them his Google account had been hacked and the hackers got his personal information from his emails.
The real McNitt produced a Google alert that Google sent him when his account was hacked. Hinton said McNitt changed his passwords within 15 minutes of speaking with Google.
The Eagle woman, a local college student, answered the classified ad by email on Oct. 26, 2017. Three days later, she received an email response saying she got the job.
The woman heard from not-McNitt again on Nov. 2, 2017, after she had asked him if the job was a scam. The alleged scammers assured her it was not a scam and produced McNitt's California driver's license and some LinkedIn references.
Four days later, the alleged scammers asked the woman to buy a Target gift card using McNitt's reportedly forged identity and to make sure they could access it.
Four days after that, the woman followed their instructions and opened a checking account in hers and McNitt's name, again giving the scammers access to it.
The alleged scammers told the woman they had transferred $4,500 into her personal account.
Over the next few days, they told the woman to send thousands of dollars from her account to a foster home in Austin, Texas.
Three days later, the woman discovered that her checking account was overdrawn by $3,124.56. She also discovered that the New York bank the scammers said they were using had refused to pay the $4,500.

That's about the time she also received a message from Craigslist saying the email she had answered and the code she used was a scam.
"Any request for it is a scam," the Craigslist message said.
Eagle police asked the Vail Daily for information about the ad. With that information and by working with Walmart Global Investigations, they tracked the transactions to Franks, who was working in Walmart's Beaumont, Texas, "money center."
Between Nov. 20 and 29, when the Eagle County woman was being scammed, Franks had completed 28 transactions for $22,472.50, Walmart investigator Jay Johnston told the Eagle police.
Walmart security video shows Franks signing receipts for money orders and putting the money in her pocket, an Eagle police report said.
Eagle police's Hinton found Franks on Facebook, wearing a Walmart vest and shirt, smiling at the camera with money stacked in the background.

Source:- http://www.lekkigists.com.ng/2018/03/nigerian-arrested-in-us-for-financial.html

See the man head like old calabash

Name checkers association pepper soup don done

Food don done for NCAN dumb members who forget that a Nigerian abroad is a Nigerian. Oyinbo don't know tribes.

Here will be battle ground in minutes/hours to come..

Another one out there bringing disgrace to our name.

Caught at last after all the warnings

No peace for the Wicked

naija

Flat Heads! Flat Heads!! Flat Heads!!!



How Many Times Did I call You All?

Dunno when Nigerians will stop shaming we the home-based Nigerian abroad

Greediness at highest order. You're in a country full of job opportunity yet you cannot engage yourself in a legitimate dealings You're a disgrace to the entire Omoluabi in sarrki voice.

Nutase:
Food don done for NCAN dumb members who forget that a Nigerian abroad is a Nigerian. Oyinbo don't know tribes.

They are beginning to know. Ask South Africans or those Asians which tribe deals in hard drugs and they will readily tell you.

I'm not disappointed in the name and the tribe.
My afonja colleague doing what they know best.

It's either we mine skull to avoid wastage or scam to help people spend their money.

my afonja brothers

zigi:
Name checkers association pepper soup don done

these yoruba guys being caught will never listen. financial crimes is not the specialty of yoruba people. they should leave it for the experts!!!

Ok

There is no way that in the man's picture is 38.

Skull miners taking over from Igbos

Who else clicked the topic expecting to see a y.ibo name?

Afonja

Them say that guy nah tarty wetin?

afonso perez...

Na Dem


Na wa

Na Them, the moment I saw the headline I knew it must be my brother from the west coast

Ogunnubi is an Ipob yewt.

Eagle police arrested a 38-year-old Nigerian man, Babajide Ayowole Ogunnubi,

name checkers right now

cc lzaa

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