Security News > 2023 > April > US extradites Nigerian charged over $6m email fraud scam

A suspected Nigerian fraudster is scheduled to appear in court Friday for his alleged role in a $6 million plot to scam businesses via email.

Kosi Goodness Simon-Ebo, 29, is the first of three Nigerian men to have been extradited from Canada to the US after a federal grand jury charged the trio on seven counts including money laundering and wire fraud for their alleged roles in a scheme to defraud victims out of millions of dollars.

As part of this, it's claimed, the fraudsters broke into people's email accounts, too, and chatted via mobile apps to organize their crimes.

Specific to this case, Simon-Ebo is charged in three wire fraud counts involving $6,343,533.

In another case, Aliyu "Did knowingly conduct and attempt to conduct a financial transaction affecting interstate and foreign commerce," the indictment alleges, citing a $350,000 wire transfer from a Bank of America account located in Maryland to a bank account in South Africa.

If convicted, the defendants each face a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison for the wire fraud conspiracy, for the money laundering conspiracy, and for each count of wire fraud.

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