{"id":2498,"date":"2019-05-08T11:29:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T10:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalfraudforensics.com\/fraudxpose\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2019-05-08T11:29:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T10:29:52","slug":"u-s-district-judge-sentenced-a-nigerian-man-identified-as-hammed-akinola-and-his-american-accomplice-james-campbell-to-many-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalfraudforensics.com\/fraudxpose\/u-s-district-judge-sentenced-a-nigerian-man-identified-as-hammed-akinola-and-his-american-accomplice-james-campbell-to-many-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. District Judge sentenced a Nigerian man identified as Hammed Akinola and his American accomplice, James Campbell, to many years in prison."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;\">A Nigerian internet fraudster popularly known as <a style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/2019\/05\/07\/popular-yahoo-boy-akpojivi-onoriode-bursted-in-his-calabar-luxury-duplex-exotic-cars-recovered-3-others-arrested\/\">Yahoo Boy<\/a>, Hammed Akinola has bagged 180 months (15 years) imprisonment for a $10million fraud. His sentence was ordered by a Federal High Court in Houston, Texas, in the United States of America (USA) .<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;\">Akinola\u2019s accomplice American accomplice was not spared also, U.S. District Judge David Hittner also sentenced 53-year-old American, James Campbell, to 90 months in prison for helping Akintola in his crime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;\">According to a press release by the US Justice Department, the judge handed the sentence on April 12, after both men pleaded guilty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/2019\/04\/30\/nigerian-man-walking-with-his-own-daughter-accused-of-kidnapping-mobbed-in-south-africa-1-killed-another-in-critical-condition\/\">Nigerian man walking with his own daughter accused of kidnapping,\u2026 <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;\">They were found to have taken or attempted to take large sums of money from roughly 45 victims, who thought they were sending their money to a title company to close on a home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;\">Unknown to them, the money was fraudulently being transferred to a bank in Houston controlled by the defendants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;\">Judge Hittner noted that the defendants \u201cruined many Americans\u2019 lives\u201d, while the banks took a large hit as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;\">Both have been and will remain in custody pending transfer to a U.S. Bureau of Prisons facility to be determined in the near future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;\">The U.S. Postal Inspection Service and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted the investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;\">From on or about January 2016 through November 2017, Campbell and Akinola were involved in an international wire fraud conspiracy that consisted primarily of Business Email Compromise (BEC) fraud which targeted businesses and individuals that regularly perform wire transfer payments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;\">They compromised legitimate business e-mail accounts through social engineering or computer intrusion techniques to conduct unauthorized transfers of funds by international co-conspirators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;\">The international co-conspirators hacked into the victims accounts and sent what appeared to the victims to be legitimate emails from banks or title companies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;\">The victims, tricked into thinking such emails were from the bank or title companies, would then transfer the money to the accounts the defendants controlled, not knowing they were fraudulent emails.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;\">Akinola was working with overseas conspirators who were orchestrating the BEC victimization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;\">Those conspirators needed domestic bank accounts where they could send the funds stolen from the BEC fraud.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;\">Akinola and Campbell agreed to work together to open bank accounts and to recruit individuals in and around the Houston area to open bank accounts in order to receive the BEC wires.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;\">Campbell and Akinola then recruited 20 other individuals who did open bank accounts to receive fraudulent funds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;\">The proceeds of the fraud scheme were disbursed between the account holders, Campbell, Akinola and international accomplices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;\">In total, the Campbell and Akinola\u2019s activity participating in the scheme and laundering its proceeds resulted in victims\u2019 of BEC fraud transferring or attempting to transfer $10.3 million into to accounts they controlled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;\">Source:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;\"><a style=\"background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/2019\/05\/07\/10m-fraud-us-sentence-nigerian-yahoo-boy-to-15-yrs-in-jail-oyinbo-accomplice-also-gets-90-months-imprisonment\/\">https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/2019\/05\/07\/10m-fraud-us-sentence-nigerian-yahoo-boy-to-15-yrs-in-jail-oyinbo-accomplice-also-gets-90-months-imprisonment\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nigerian internet fraudster popularly known as Yahoo Boy, Hammed Akinola has bagged 180 months (15 years) imprisonment for a $10million fraud. 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