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Baiting Guru Joined: 21 Nov 2010 Posts: 2200

No wonder I can't get him to answer his email anymore.

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A Nigerian, Emmanuel Ehkator who was investigated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for criminal conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud in the United States of America has been sentenced by District Court Judge, Middle District of Pennsylvania, Yvette Kane, to a three-year term. He is also ordered to pay $11,092,028 in restitution to his victims.

http://www.efccnigeria.org/efcc/index.php/news/590-11m-fraud-nigerian-jailed-in-the-united-states

Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 12:06 am

Standing O to whoever nailed the asshat. May he enjoy imprisonment.

Elite Baiter Joined: 10 Mar 2013 Posts: 1486

^^^ If i understood that article then they were targeting legal firms with their scams. Not very smart in the long run.

Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 9:57 am

Three years for stealing $11m ??

Baiting Guru Joined: 21 Nov 2010 Posts: 2200

^^Yes, but he had to promise to pay back all the money. Rolling Eyes

Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 12:45 am

Well, in jail he has better food, better medical, clean bed,and clean clothing..

Better than at home.. Rolling Eyes

Posted: Sun Sep 15, 2013 5:53 pm

^^If he was nearly as successful as the article suggests, he was living pretty well.

This is a high level version of the classic check scams used for Craig's list, rental scams, etc. The checks tend to be for large amounts of money and the scams are generally very well run. Through Scamwarners. I've spoken to a couple of attorneys who were in the midst of one of these. In both cases they were too arrogant to see how they could be at risk. It's nice to see this guy get caught!

Baiting Guru Joined: 27 Mar 2011 Posts: 21158

I have watched this one since I started here. He stole way more than 11M

http://ireports-ng.com/2011/08/12/nigerian-fraud-kingpin-emmanuel-ekhator-whisked-to-u-s-over-32-million-as-2-others-await-extradition/

http://news2.onlinenigeria.com/news/top-stories/107315-emmanuel-ekhator-nigerian-fraudster-handed-over-to-us-by-efcc.html

http://forctlawyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Middle-District-of-Pennsylvania-superceeding-indiictment2.pdf

This is a portion of the first article if you can't find it any longer

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After 12 months of legal battle, Nigeriaâ€™s anti-graft police, the EFCC has eventually whisked a notorious Internet fraudster, Emmanuel Ekhator to the United States to face prosecution for defrauding over 80 American law firms of funds in excess of $32 million.

iReports-ng gathered that Ekhator was flown out of Nigeria under the custody of a senior EFCC operative on Wednesday night aboard a Delta airline flight to Atlanta from where they proceeded to Pennsylvania where they eventually appeared before a district court which is set to begin the trial of Ekhator on Thursday.

Back in Nigeria,the EFCC has vowed that the country will no longer be a safe place for Nigerian fugitive criminals fleeing from law enforcement agents in other countries.

Chairman of the anti-graft agency, Mrs. Farida Waziri who disclosed this while briefing some officers of the Commission on the successful handover of the Nigerian fugitive, Ekhator to a court in the United States on Thursday said the suspect is the third Nigerian fugitive to be handed over to the US authorities by the EFCC while two others are presently awaiting extradition to the U.S

While George Ubeozor was extradited in 2008, Sunday Adebisi Adegbesan was handed over in 2009 both to the authorities in New York . The Latest to suffer the same fate, Ehkator was indicted in the U.S. District court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania on November 3, 2010 over a $32 million internet collections scam.

The suspect was arrested in Benin City , Edo State in August 2010 by EFCC operatives following top level exchange of information between U.S. Law enforcement agents and the EFCC over the activities of a trans-border ring of internet scammers headed by Ekhator.

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