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This was where he was listed on forbes Africa under 30.

Not knowing he's a FRAUDSTER!

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kerryadolan/2016/06/06/africas-most-promising-entrepreneurs-forbes-africas-30-under-30-for-2016/#73e663a51f43

Interesting reaction from twitter users

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Mynd44
Seun

This is a front page material. He was the guy that was tracked through his email details he exposed on his nairaland profile.

When convicted in the US for wire frauds, whats the usual sentence?

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PS: PLEASE READ MY HUSTLE ON MY SIGNATURE. IT'S what I know and do. MY PAST WORKS ARE ENOUGH PROOF

We gonna continue huzzling legit till we hammer. This ain't gonna be our path to success.

I am gonna Like this post as a reminder to never stop huzzling legitimately

I am also gonna Share this post to remind myself and others to always remember Fraud Never Pays.

Do same!!!

EduTechTainMent

Listen to his BBC interview here too. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p065dtt3

Crime doesn't pay!

Yes, many a Nigerian billionaire got their validation from the American publication, FORBES, which started the rating trend that has now become the benchmark, from an African perspective, to know who a billionaire is or not.

It is, for many Nigerian money-men, a bragging right to be rated by Forbes, but the case may no longer be the same with the arrest of Obinwanne Okeke fondly called InvictusObi, and the reality that Forbes may have become or been compromised all along.

In a society bereft of role models, Obiwanne Okeke was, until as you read, the quintessential young, wealthy and celebrated businessman, with an expansive fandom of fawning youth and an enthusiastic media gleefully lapping up all stories about him.

At 31, Obinwanne was the poster boy of grass to grace stories; the boy who rose from nothing to something. Many even likened him to the rose that grew out of concrete because he was the 17th child of a polygamous father who died when Obinwanne was 16. Things became difficult for the young man, necessitating his moving from one relative to another. He later moved to Australia to study where he said he “did all kinds of jobs just to survive.” There is no context whatsoever to how he got the chance to travel to Australia if he ever did.

Obinwanne later founded the Invictus Group of Companies, an investment conglomerate dealing in construction, agriculture, oil and gas, renewable energy, telecoms, and real estate. In 2017, Invictus Group was named as Africa’s Most Innovative Investment Company of the Year by African Brand Congress. The same year, he was nominated in the Young African Business Leader (West Africa) category for the All Africa Business Leaders Awards (AABLA). In 2018, he was nominated amongst 100 Most Influential Young Nigerians by Avance Media.

But he became a continental sensation of a sort in 2016 when he was named in Forbes Africa’s 30 Under 30 list and was featured in the magazine’s June cover. In the prologue to the article, the magazine wrote, “FORBES AFRICA spent months looking for the best this continent has to offer. Research coupled with nominations from our readers brought the number to 250 potential Under 30s. We worked for weeks, verifying and investigating, to whittle it down. We favoured entrepreneurs with fresh ideas and took into account their business size, location, potential, struggles and determination.

A panel of judges then debated the final 30.” In the end, the influential American magazine said Okeke was primus inter pares among 600 of the brightest young entrepreneurs, breakout talents and change agents in 20 different sectors that made the list. It went on to use his picture on the cover of that particular edition.
Alas, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI, has revealed that Obinwanne is nothing more than a fraudster.

In a painstaking investigation led by Special Agent Marshall Ward of the FBI, Obinwanne was fingered and subsequently arrested for wire fraud valued at over $12m. According to the investigation, “In June 2018, Unatrac Holding Limited, the export sales office for Caterpillar heavy industrial and farm equipment, headquartered in the United Kingdom, contacted the FBI. They reported that Unatrac had been victimised through an email compromise, which ultimately resulted in fraudulent wire transfers totalling nearly 11million US Dollars. After reviewing the documentation provided by the representatives, the FBI opened an investigation in July 2018.” The FBI discovered that after capturing the legitimate credentials of Unatrac’s Chief Financial Officer, the accused was able to log in and access the CFO’s entire Office365 account, which included all of his emails and various digital files, the logs indicated that between April 6 and April 20, 2018, the intruder accessed the CFO’s account 464 times, mostly from Internet Protocol (IP) addresses from Nigeria.


“With full access to the account, the intruder sent fraudulent wire transfer requests from the CFO’s email account to members of Unatrac’s internal financial team. The intruder also attached fake invoices to the emails to enhance the credibility of the requests,” the investigator stated. The investigation, painstaking and far-reaching, lasted more than a year during which Obinwanne emerged as the principal culprit and has since been arrested while on his regular visit to the United States.

http://instablog9ja.com/2019/08/16/how-high-tech-fbi-investigation-led-to-the-arrest-of-forbes-celebrated-nigerian-obinwanneokeke-invictusobi-for-12m-wire-fraud-during-his-recent-trip-to-the-u-s-swipe/

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She can use an agent too

Double wahala

Banned for life kwa

NwaAmaikpe:

BAD GUY! I CAUGHT YOU! DROP EEEET

The person talking is so intrigued by such a dumb programme , it says a lot about her

Omihanifa:
The reason why that receipt was written with biro is because everything is (staged for the gram) if it was a genuine deal it would have been in a printed thermal paper receipt and not that trash up there

The guy just went to that shop to do small advert for them so that people can know the shop

how person go rent shop for Lekki phase 1, come dey sell luxury goods and they are still issuing receipts with biro and A4 paper


To show you how foolish dey are they started the receipt in dollars and ended it with naira
Which serious shop go dey this unprofessional

Lol.. These are the kind of contents I come to NL daily for ALL NA SHOWBIZ. I PITY THOSE MUMU YOUTHS WHO WOULD FALL INTO DEPRESSION SEEING THESE NONSENSE

Just imagine davido claiming he spent 54m on a ring too

Zeinymira:
This life can be trying sha...
This guy Toyin ended up with has been in the industry for years and he's unknown. She must have ignored for years and today he's her husband

He's not unknown. You just don't watch Nollywood

CRIME DON'T PAY but they should have only beaten the living daylight out of him before handing over to police instead of burning him to death. Mehn.

Guy your website is so terrible. Zero page load speed. Yuck!! You're not fit to be called a blogger at all.

At post, hahaha naija girls are very funny sha

Apc- that's the only thing on their head. Election, rig, win, chop money, lie, throw propaganda.. Chai

Ps: I don't support any political party in Nigeria.

So Where's their cup with all the nutmegging

fiizznation:
Sowore will be detained for a period of 45days and after that, the federal government should charge him to court for treasonous act and incitement. You didn't remember your useless revolution until when you contested in the same election that buhari won, that's when you remembered one 'useless revolution protest'.

I urge the FG to arrest any silly ass that engage himself/herself in any revolution protest again. If you want a revolution, use the ballot box.

Straight to the point. I love the last line though. If you want a revolution, use the ballot box

For this girl to have been in barcelona, she must be really good. Congratulations oshomama

Wait. So she has played for Liverpool, arsenal and now Barcelona. No cap, she's extremely good at what she does then.

GIROUD played 90mins without touching the ball? is this real?? if it is real, it has to be number 1 ..HANDS DOWN

kenralph:
Interesting page no.

LOL

SPEECHLESS

WTF DID I JUST READ

Lowkey, this dude enjoyed JULI sha

What was his offense again sef?

OKAFOR law would still hold if this guy is smart.

It is $1m and not $1.5m.. Op take note https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/08/08/apple-confirms-1-million-reward-for-hackers-who-find-serious-iphone-vulnerabilities/amp/

lets settle this once and for all.

LIKE - for messi

SHare - for ronaldo.

ps. i read a line in this interview that bursted my head/... "Thank God, I don’t lack money, so what I want to earn is a place in the history of football.” ...it's not easy to get to that stage... HARDWORK, CONSISTENCY

OK but how is this news? NAIRALAND

Laslas bet9ja, airtime and porn guys have taken over nairaland. Look at all of them below

crafteck:
These poor basxxxd have no idea what 3m is and what it can do, hence den suppose dey pray for salah right now, he could have bought multiple private jet like adeboye or a fleet of the new rides like mompha or more of what celebrity footballers buy but he donated....

Exactly. Thank you so Much.. That guy is daft! No apologies whatsoever

I received it but 200mb Do these people even take us for a joke? I'm Not sure they realize what the over 12hours network disruption costed some of us. Is it possible to sue?

I'm not sure she knows now.. Until she leaves the house... Nigeria police force would be happy to have her join them anyways..

Anti wey mumu.

Davido with the frog voice badd guy!!! He's got a wonderful personality, but I rate WIZKID's songs[/i] than his even though wiz doesn't give us those hits like he used to when he started then.

By the way...

[i]Like play like play sowore has been abandoned and forgotten inside cell. Nigerians are ungrateful people o

So it's now 5k? NICE