A fraudster has admitted he tricked two suppliers into paying him more than $500,000 by impersonating staff at a subcontractor and a retail outlet via email.
Kenenty Hwan Kim, aka Myung Kim, 64, pleaded guilty [PDF] in a Texas court this week to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. He confessed to overseeing two so-called business email compromise scams in which he managed to re-route payments from his victims to his own accounts. He was collared by the FBI in 2019, and the con is documented in the Feds' court filings [PDF].
In one case, we're told, Kim emailed Solid Bridge Construction, based in Huntsville in the US state, pretending to be Brett Chance, the owner of Chance Contracting, which is based in Pinehurst ..
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