Feds get extradition for 64 year-old fraud suspect who allegedly netted hundreds of thousands of dollars
A 64 year-old man from Nigeria is set to be tried in the US on charges he was the brains behind a string of business email hacks and romance scams.
Babatunde Martins is one of eleven people indicted in the Western Tennessee US District Court on charges of wire fraud, conspiracy, computer fraud, money laundering, and identity theft.
Prosecutors say that Martins was a key part of the group that in 2016 used spoofed email addresses and phished accounts to eavesdrop on the dealings of a Tennessee real estate company and, at various times, instruct unsuspecting employees to re-route outgoing payments into the accounts of money mules who then wired the stolen funds overseas.
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