Mr Olumide Ogunremi who lived in the Newark city in the United States and runs a computer hacking and identity theft scheme has been arrested in connection with a $1million cyber fraud.
Ogunremi, aka Tony Williams, faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of the single count of wire fraud.
“The ring employed “phishing” attacks, which used fraudulent e-mails and websites that mimicked the legitimate e-mails and web pages of U.S. govt agencies. Unwitting employees of those agencies visited the fake web pages and provided their e-mail account usernames and passwords. The engage in transactions with these details.
On June 10, 2014, Abiodun Ade John aka James Williams (30), pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud conspiracy, and later sentenced to three years in prison.
(Credit: Chidi Cali)
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