10 Years in Prison for $4.5 million BEC Scammer Who Bought Ferrari to Launder Money

A scammer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for laundering over US $4.5 million obtained by targeting businesses and the elderly with Business Email Compromise ( BEC) and romance fraud scams. Malachi Mullings, a 31-year-old from Sandy Springs, Georgia, was charged with opening 20 bank accounts in the name of a sham company, The Mullings Group LLC, to launder millions of dollars generated through fraudulent activity between 2019 and July 2021. Some of the money that Mullings processed had been defrauded from "numerous individual victims" who had fallen foul of romance scams. Several of...

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