There's still one thing many people don't get about this case of America vs Hushpuppi. At the moment, the US government only charges him on an offense of Money Laundering which serves him those 20years.

By the time his case is done ruling and found guilty of other offenses (which he would probably be) such as Systems Intrusion, Business Email Compromise (BEC), Credit/Debit Cards Hack etc he would highly likely spend 60years in Federal Penitentiary on paper or about 30 - 35 years in true calendar months.

Each case fetches its own jail term and as it stands now, the US government only charges him with Money Laundering offense. We all know that he did Business Email Compromise as well as the OP of this thread probed 3 years ago. So in more clearer terms, Hushpuppi will probably spend at least 30 years in the US Prison with intense hard labor as a black foreigner.

Ade3131:


This is exactly what I'm working on right now. If you've gathered much information about it, I won't mind if you share some of them with me.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/13/gps-can-spy-on-you-even-when-you-turn-it-off.html

I can’t find the video anymore but here is an article with similar results.

Ade3131:


Having read your post I feel it will be nice I say well-done to you. I wish this Hushpuppy's case and more like it will awaken the Nigerian state to the tickling time bomb OBJ has always cried about but ironically couldn't do anything about while in power. A country where a large chunk of the population is not gainfully employed, and are youths is surely sitting on a gunpowder.

Hush is just one out of the many Yahoo boiz we know. There's virtually no single Nigerian living in the city within age 18 to 40 who doesn't know a Yahoo boy or knows someone who knows a Yahoo boy. The statistics is alarming if you consider the numbers yet they're celebrated or spoken highly about due to the decadence in the system. Even worse is the fact that some parents scold their legitimate hardworking children who are struggling with the ups and downs of life just because the son of a neighbor down the street is driving flashy cars without any traceable source of wealth.

I pray the Nigerian youth could wake up to the most fundamental ask of a citizen - question your leaders and demand good leadership. Africans at large lags in this regard. It's hard to see where that's going to come from considering how divided we are as a people. Nigeria keeps churning out graduates year in year out without any tangible plan to absorb them into the workforce of the economy. How then will fraud and crime not thrive in such a society?

You see money-miss-road politicians who before venturing into politics had nothing to offer the economy, flaunting their overnight riches and you begin to wonder if an average Nigerian is okay in the head. Politics is so lucrative here that the country would borrow to fund budgets while our political class continue to be one of the best paid public office holders in the world.

Until we start demanding and pushing for good governance, unemployed and underemployed Nigerian youths will continue to consider crime as an alternative route to breaking the chain of poverty in their lineage.

There has evidently been a large explosion of Yahoo activities over the last 5 years or so and this is as a result of decades of mismanagement and bad governance and sadly Hushpuppy's arrest does little to nothing as a deterrent to people already in it or those looking to join.It already encourages it more cause now Yahoo guys will now learn to keep a low profile.

I don't even want to start with the whole unemployment talk but look at Opay for example who packed up from Nigeria recently.Imagine the thousands of of direct/indirect jobs that is throwing into the streets all because of bad govt policies. How then do you encourage a group of young individuals to enter into the market as start ups when all govt policies are geared to shut them down from the get go.

The truth is that Wire fraud is here to stay cause it's fast becoming part of the Nigerian culture

AfroKnight:


https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/13/gps-can-spy-on-you-even-when-you-turn-it-off.html

I can’t find the video anymore but here is an article with similar results.

Thank you so much. I appreciate

rasheedatt:
In life one can never be too careful

Very true

DanseMacabre:
Me ah no just fit shout. See better bar wey men like me dey control.


Hushekuke bleeped up big time tho. Dude should have gone legit a long time ago.

U still have the same fraudster mentality, will going legit later suddenly erase all his past deeds and records?
did you read the article at all?

I knew from onset that Hushpuppi was too daft and petty to be a scammer. He was just the channel for transferring the funds. He only provides bank accounts which the real hackers laundered the stolen loot. Real hackers are faceless and hardly showcase their wealth. Hushpuppi is an idiot and should rot in jail for been petty.

I went back read the comments of those people supporting him but now many of them have opened another account

Sheuns:
They always leave trails. The guy wasn’t even a hacker. He supplied accts. The law firm fraud was what led to his arrest. His phone and chat histories gave way for his older dealings.

that was what I told some Friends days ago. he wasn't the hacker and also all what he does may just be to create pseudo profiles and supply bank accounts that money will be wired into.. the real game are the hackers who are mostly Arabs, Russians or Chinese.. remembered Money Heists when Professor hired Pakistanis as his back end hacker..
they are the ones that break into Bank, create BEC and infiltrate govt,corporate orgs for quick fix..thanks be to God he wasn't caught here. he would have escape justice kos he had long connections..

Pineapplelove:
Please pay attention to what I am about to say. It may not appeal to your moral sentiments but you can conclude what you like.

What you see on social media is no true reflection of reality. Nonetheless, my sister's and brothers, strive to be the best. Struggle to achieve the best things in life, even if it's not for you, do it for your children.

A part of me blames hushpuppy but then again he is a product of a broken society. A society which is a den of all forms of corruption, from the top echlon to last sector of our community. If you doubt my submission, pick up any national daily newspaper if you will not see a familiar face who has been accused of scam/corruption but roaming freely with a wild beam of smiles.

Whatever crimes hushpuppy or Invictus obi committed were not necessarily done on Nigerian soil. There associates too would definitely not be only Nigerians but whites and Arabs. Let's move on with our lives and take back Nigeria ... That should be the real struggle and not digging puppy's insta

Meanwhile, something to laugh at below

People like u are part of the uchanged broken system,you actually want it to continue like that.Do u ever consider the growing numbers of people being disgrace overseas because of this illicit act despite it wasn't committed on Nigeria soil.My brother in USA said a white man wanted to buy phone fron his hand last week on getting to know he is a Nigeria he stopped the transaction ,his excuse was that one famous fraudster from Nigerian expatriated to USA divert money meant for their company.
Bros nomata how decay the society has become some person still want to get it right and continue to venture into letigimate businesses and transaction,but people like this useless and stupid Hushpuppy continue to block our ways.
Everyone one us is born into the system and if we all turned to be the product of the fail system then Nigeria end will be outright.My brother there is no excuse to commit any crime.I understand that yahoo boys will continue to be celebrated in Nigeria but the pains of those who are into legit businesses which chances are been blocked coz of their fraudulent activities will hunt them down .
We need a change Nigeria.

membranus:


Have you been there?

I mean are you an ex convict in a US jail?

You must have been there to be telling us this authoritatively.

My friend, I dont need to be a convict to know that people find islam in jail.

Some of them are actually bullied by the Muslim gangs into converting.

No matter what, anybody that thinks scams of the scale and caliber of hushpuppi and co is not hard work, that person is naive. What those guys do is no joke. To pull off scams like that successfully takes meticulous grit and skill. I BY NO MEANS applaud or support scams and frauds including individuals who carry them out. But I'm sick of people making comments that imply scamming is easy job. Really? I don't read about hushpuppi anymore. I quickly scroll past articles about him because he's a terrible embarrassment to my identity. Daily Mail wrote his story and you see all these white people mocking and insulting Nigeria. It broke my heart. Another thing is that, majority of these white people think it's just romance and Nigerian prince scams which makes me angry and sorry for them at the same time.

I been wan do this yahoo shit ooh,I swear. But I change my mind as I finish secondary school. But she I dey see boys for my street dey wear designer,mad sneakers,I phones,girls,e dey enter my eye. But I no do

1Sharon:


My friend, I dont need to be a convict to know that people find islam in jail.

Some of them are actually bullied by the Muslim gangs into converting.

That in a US jail?

You must be living in another planet, or you are a plain joker.

madridguy:
Number 1 law of hacking is you must learn to conceal your identity.

Imaging using your exhibit email address for your banking details yet still opening it for the world to see.

...when cup is full. Karma have a way of catching up

naptu2:
This is a Nairaland post/thread from July 30th, 2017.




www.nairaland.com/attachments/5739303_hush_jpeg7f5edc56c49cf2be33876da834479735

www.nairaland.com/attachments/5739304_hush3_jpeg977f1b2927a47715e0197a938f1ceeb8



www.nairaland.com/attachments/5739313_hush4_jpeg5c0752e7645912cedf280c4b5fbddb15



www.nairaland.com/attachments/5739322_hush5_jpeg42154fae40690eeb3339868ce4292040

www.nairaland.com/attachments/5739323_hush6_jpeg0e9b1fd0bbb685f2ba58a045e0eb05a1




https://www.nairaland.com/3956741/exposed-hushpuppi-also-jane-woodscrane

The most annoying thing is insulting those that make legit living.... Now he is in coolers... HushBingos

madjune:


Who told you that?

20yrs is half its term in the penal lexicon.

A check on Google about prison terms for international cybercriminals will save you from all these.

Adiwana:


Nah,he wasn't careful. For him to get away with it for years means a real professional hacker was behind the scenes doing his job correctly by cleaning his trails. He probably had that at the back of his mind and that's what gave him the heart to be showing his face on SM cause no way was his face going to be pinned on those loots. It was the urge to show off that attracted attention that brought him down. If dude was off social media,would've been really difficult to get to him.

With or without social media, he would still have been caught. BEC crime is a top priority for the FBI. Invictus was not that active on social media. Remember.

Vaselinelord:
he'll still come back to his loot jare...... pls rest amd stop insulting up and down joooor

Lol.
Most of you don't even know how the FBI works. This guy won't meet a dime after serving his term. They will seize and confiscate all the assets belonging to him and his associates in every corner of the world. Unless he buried money in underground cells - which I doubt he did. FBI Investigations like this take years and they are always thorough.

donbrowser:

Dude was so daft. Social media ruined hushpuppy

He would still have been caught without social media. BEC crimes are not handled with kid gloves by US law enforcement. Invictus probably stole less than 5% of what Hush Puppi and his goons stole. He was still nabbed despite not being too loud on social media.
Most of the so-called lowkey BEC fraudsters are all under the FBI radar - you will know this if you read their reports regularly. They are just waiting to build enough evidence before picking them up.

CRIME DOES NOT PAY!

DuBLINGreenb:


Everybody does not need to be as rich as hushpuppi,

yes I never insinuated that neither did I state that everyone needs to be as rich as him.

I told you that the majority of our Nigerian graduates are living in abject poverty after NYSC nothing at all for them even during NYSC you need connection to get posted to a place that will pay you 10k or more how much more after NYSC.

What I am saying is where is the assurance, where are the social structures and safety nets that ensures Nigerians especially graduates do not fall below a certain level of poverty. That is all I am saying.

How many graduates can boast of earning 100k+ in Nigeria today even here on Nairaland you typing I know you don't earn up to 100k a month

100,000naira a month translates to 1.2m a year this is the amount countries like USA consider as poor. So to USA people living in this amount are tagged poor.

In Nigeria we have no social security, so people can be poor as in 0 naira in hand, 0 naira in bank and no food and yet they have no place to go to at least get free food and a blanket almost every country outside Africa has provisions for the poor. We on the other hand have the world's largest concentration of poor people with no safety net. What do you expect? For these people not to find a way out of such poverty without looking back. Not everybody can hold their morality in such circumstances so we should attack the WHY instead of the people when the causative agent is addressed then anybody still indulging in such acts only have himself to blame

I'm sure alot of Nigerian fraudsters infact criminals generally will leave their crooked ways if they see something legit that will pay them half of what whatever crime they are doing now is paying them.

Arresting Hushpuppi won't stop Nigerian scammers, it will only give Hush legendary status , immortalise him and his deeds like Billy the kid or any other criminals during the time when the majority of Europe and americas were poor. Criminals attained legendary status for going against the rich and the state or govmt why do you think that is
But now that the majority are above the poverty line when you commit a crime it is frowned upon by Everybody in the west Why? Simple the govmt now works or appears to work for the betterment of the majority unlike in Africa particularly Nigeria where the govmt works for the politicians only.

Saudi Arabia has the same oil as Nigeria every citizen of Dubai gets paid by Saudi Aramco oil company which is the state owned company 1.2million naira per month, for doing nothing just because their country has oil, in Nigeria even the people who own the land where Nigerias oil is drilled from don't get 1 naira, the oil has killed all the fishes in the rivers and as such increased poverty yet the govmt has not given farmers any money to go into another business.

And here you are defending the govmt.

Stop using anything to justify fraud. Nigeria is not the only country with bad or corrupt politicians. I know Nigerian politicians are heartless and useless but why did hush puppi not hustle legitimately despite being in a developed country? I have friends in Dubai who worked as cleaners before getting good jobs there. The issue here is greed and impatience. There are dozens of countries that are worse than Nigeria in every ramification but their citizens are not reputed for this nonsense image Nigerians now have all over the world. These guys have ruined so many opportunities for millions of Nigerians all across the world. People know that politicians in most parts of the world are scums - so if your country has corrupt politicians - people won't really use that to judge you unlike when your citizens have a history of notorious crimes. There are times abroad when I introduced myself as a Nigerian and the foreigners there all agreed that Nigerians are fraudsters based on the activities of these stupid yahoo boys. They think we are all dishonest people due to this whole nonsense yahoo boys that will all die a miserable death.
The problem is not bad governance but greed and impatience. Hush Puppi found his way to Dubai - where he has access to good jobs and stuff. He chose not to work but engage in fraud. And he ended up spending his loot on luxury lifestyle. If you take all these Naija yahoo boys to the USA(where there is good governance) and give good jobs - they will still look for means to scam people. Because they want to drive Benz. Live lavishly forgetting that life is a process and things take time. Most of these people are not looking for how to meet their basic needs. They are all in a hurry to live in luxury - neglecting the fact that people in developed countries largely live an average lifestyle. When Americans deride Nigerians with terms like ”Nigerian Prince” or ”419”, do they refer to Nigerian politicians or ordinary Nigerians who engage in cybercrime? This shows you who really brings us shame. Nonsense!

God no go shame us

Ade3131:


Having read your post I feel it will be nice I say well-done to you. I wish this Hushpuppy's case and more like it will awaken the Nigerian state to the tickling time bomb OBJ has always cried about but ironically couldn't do anything about while in power. A country where a large chunk of the population is not gainfully employed, and are youths is surely sitting on a gunpowder.

Hush is just one out of the many Yahoo boiz we know. There's virtually no single Nigerian living in the city within age 18 to 40 who doesn't know a Yahoo boy or knows someone who knows a Yahoo boy. The statistics is alarming if you consider the numbers yet they're celebrated or spoken highly about due to the decadence in the system. Even worse is the fact that some parents scold their legitimate hardworking children who are struggling with the ups and downs of life just because the son of a neighbor down the street is driving flashy cars without any traceable source of wealth.

I pray the Nigerian youth could wake up to the most fundamental ask of a citizen - question your leaders and demand good leadership. Africans at large lags in this regard. It's hard to see where that's going to come from considering how divided we are as a people. Nigeria keeps churning out graduates year in year out without any tangible plan to absorb them into the workforce of the economy. How then will fraud and crime not thrive in such a society?

You see money-miss-road politicians who before venturing into politics had nothing to offer the economy, flaunting their overnight riches and you begin to wonder if an average Nigerian is okay in the head. Politics is so lucrative here that the country would borrow to fund budgets while our political class continue to be one of the best paid public office holders in the world.

Until we start demanding and pushing for good governance, unemployed and underemployed Nigerian youths will continue to consider crime as an alternative route to breaking the chain of poverty in their lineage.

Stop using anything to justify fraud. Nigeria is not the only country with bad or corrupt politicians. I know Nigerian politicians are heartless and useless but why did hush puppi not hustle legitimately despite being in a developed country? What about Invictus who found himself in the US but refused to hustle legitimately? I have friends in Dubai who worked as cleaners before getting good jobs there - why did they not go the route of Hush? . The issue here is greed and impatience. There are dozens of countries that are worse than Nigeria in every ramification but their citizens are not reputed for this nonsense image Nigerians now have all over the world. These guys have ruined so many opportunities for millions of Nigerians all across the world. People know that politicians in most parts of the world are scums - so if your country has corrupt politicians - people won't really use that to judge you unlike when your citizens have a history of notorious crimes. There are times abroad when I introduced myself as a Nigerian and the foreigners there all agreed that Nigerians are fraudsters based on the activities of these stupid yahoo boys. They think we are all dishonest people due to this whole nonsense yahoo boys that will all die a miserable death.
The problem is not just bad governance but greed and impatience. Hush Puppi found his way to Dubai - where he has access to good jobs and stuff. He chose not to work but engage in fraud. And he ended up spending his loot on luxury lifestyle. If you take all these Naija yahoo boys to the USA(where there is good governance) and give good jobs - they will still look for means to scam people. Because they want to drive Benz. Live lavishly forgetting that life is a process and things take time. Most of these people are not looking for how to meet their basic needs. They are all in a hurry to live in luxury - neglecting the fact that people in developed countries largely live an average lifestyle. When Americans deride Nigerians with terms like ”Nigerian Prince” or ”419”, do they refer to Nigerian politicians or ordinary Nigerians who engage in cybercrime? This shows you who really brings us shame. Nonsense!

1Sharon:


My friend, I dont need to be a convict to know that people find islam in jail.

Some of them are actually bullied by the Muslim gangs into converting.

rotfl

Crispels:


With or without social media, he would still have been caught. BEC crime is a top priority for the FBI. Invictus was not that active on social media. Remember.

Invictus was caught cause he used his main email as backup email to the email he uses to scam which was traced to the comments he made here on Nairaland where he gave out that same email address. Remember that Hushpuppy has been on this for years and was only started getting trailed just about 4 months ago. Would he have been caught even if he was underground?? Probably but been out in the open attracted the unwanted attention

Adiwana:


Invictus was caught cause he used his main email as backup email to the email he uses to scam which was traced to the comments he made here on Nairaland where he gave out that same email address. Remember that Hushpuppy has been on this for years and was only started getting trailed just about 4 months ago. Would he have been caught even if he was underground?? Probably but been out in the open attracted the unwanted attention

Only Dubai police starting training him four months ago. If you check the FBI complaint in court, he has been under their radar since 2017.

Malawian:
I understand the "big dick busta" of "the godfather of Harlem" movie is back in jail in the US for a third strike.

that means the puppy ass is in trouble

Crispels:


Stop using anything to justify fraud. Nigeria is not the only country with bad or corrupt politicians. I know Nigerian politicians are heartless and useless but why did hush puppi not hustle legitimately despite being in a developed country? What about Invictus who found himself in the US but refused to hustle legitimately? I have friends in Dubai who worked as cleaners before getting good jobs there - why did they not go the route of Hush? . The issue here is greed and impatience. There are dozens of countries that are worse than Nigeria in every ramification but their citizens are not reputed for this nonsense image Nigerians now have all over the world. These guys have ruined so many opportunities for millions of Nigerians all across the world. People know that politicians in most parts of the world are scums - so if your country has corrupt politicians - people won't really use that to judge you unlike when your citizens have a history of notorious crimes. There are times abroad when I introduced myself as a Nigerian and the foreigners there all agreed that Nigerians are fraudsters based on the activities of these stupid yahoo boys. They think we are all dishonest people due to this whole nonsense yahoo boys that will all die a miserable death.
The problem is not just bad governance but greed and impatience. Hush Puppi found his way to Dubai - where he has access to good jobs and stuff. He chose not to work but engage in fraud. And he ended up spending his loot on luxury lifestyle. If you take all these Naija yahoo boys to the USA(where there is good governance) and give good jobs - they will still look for means to scam people. Because they want to drive Benz. Live lavishly forgetting that life is a process and things take time. Most of these people are not looking for how to meet their basic needs. They are all in a hurry to live in luxury - neglecting the fact that people in developed countries largely live an average lifestyle. When Americans deride Nigerians with terms like ”Nigerian Prince” or ”419”, do they refer to Nigerian politicians or ordinary Nigerians who engage in cybercrime? This shows you who really brings us shame. Nonsense!

Sorry you took me out of context. Never was I justifying fraud my friend. And I quite understand how soiled the name of this country is.

My write-up is centered around getting to the root of the decadence in our country. How we got here and how prevalent cyber crime is in our society. Truth is, we can continue to attack the personalities of those into fraud without any iota of success at deterring others bcuz the underlying cause is left unchecked.

Mind you, I said an average Nigerian youth within a certain age group residing in cities knows someone who's into Yahoo or knows someone who knows someone who's into the act but is the society frowning at it? Have you ever called out anyone you know with an untraceable source of wealth before? And if you have even managed to do so, what's the response from the antigraft agencies like?

My brother, I'm not justifying scamming and will never do but am only hoping that people with high spirit and motivation like the one you poured out in your response to me will step forward and demand sanity in the Nigerian system. Not until we are able to reward hard work proportionately and accordingly, and get our teeming youths gainfully employed, Nigeria might continue to remain a shit hole country for some decades.

Puff...just like that all the money have grown wings and flew away...not possible for him to get the kind of money he has spent in the past 3-4 years...ever again...all turned to dream now...

membranus:


That in a US jail?

You must be living in another planet, or you are a plain joker.

Yes in American prisons.

You are defensive so you must be a Muslim.

TheGodlessGod:
An average nigerian will be born in poverty and most of them will die in poverty.

It's a choice between living in poverty or making money by all means. I don't know which is worse.

This looks like a paradox

i know your type

Crispels:


Stop using anything to justify fraud. Nigeria is not the only country with bad or corrupt politicians. I know Nigerian politicians are heartless and useless but why did hush puppi not hustle legitimately despite being in a developed country? I have friends in Dubai who worked as cleaners before getting good jobs there. The issue here is greed and impatience. There are dozens of countries that are worse than Nigeria in every ramification but their citizens are not reputed for this nonsense image Nigerians now have all over the world. These guys have ruined so many opportunities for millions of Nigerians all across the world. People know that politicians in most parts of the world are scums - so if your country has corrupt politicians - people won't really use that to judge you unlike when your citizens have a history of notorious crimes. There are times abroad when I introduced myself as a Nigerian and the foreigners there all agreed that Nigerians are fraudsters based on the activities of these stupid yahoo boys. They think we are all dishonest people due to this whole nonsense yahoo boys that will all die a miserable death.
The problem is not bad governance but greed and impatience. Hush Puppi found his way to Dubai - where he has access to good jobs and stuff. He chose not to work but engage in fraud. And he ended up spending his loot on luxury lifestyle. If you take all these Naija yahoo boys to the USA(where there is good governance) and give good jobs - they will still look for means to scam people. Because they want to drive Benz. Live lavishly forgetting that life is a process and things take time. Most of these people are not looking for how to meet their basic needs. They are all in a hurry to live in luxury - neglecting the fact that people in developed countries largely live an average lifestyle. When Americans deride Nigerians with terms like ”Nigerian Prince” or ”419”, do they refer to Nigerian politicians or ordinary Nigerians who engage in cybercrime? This shows you who really brings us shame. Nonsense!

I am not justifying fraud, Hushpuppi did wrong by not stopping on time, by not diversifying or doing something else, he got greedy and comfortable with what he was doing it had worked too many times so he always assumed it would work forever big mistake on his part.

Who told you those guys doing legit work, if they knew how to scan they wouldn't be into fraud already? Who told you if they got into public office they won't loot funds.

The reason they remain in scam is that they get too comfortable, they see it as the only way out they have probably tried and failed at many things and the one thing they succeeded at they decide to stick to it SIMPLE