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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday August 21 2019, @06:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the from-butterfly-to-caterpillar dept.

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A Nigerian national that was on Forbes' list of the most promising entrepreneurs in Africa stands accused of business email compromise fraud that stole $11 million from one victim alone.

Obinwanne Okeke is the founder of Invictus Group, involved in construction, agriculture, oil and gas, telecoms and real estate, according. In 2016, Forbes added him to its "Africa's 30 under 30" young business owners.

Fast forward three years later, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia issues an arrest warrant in Okeke's name for alleged conspiracies to commit computer and wire fraud.

Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/11m-email-scam-at-caterpillar-pinned-to-nigerian-businessman/


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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 21 2019, @07:33AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 21 2019, @07:33AM (#883008)

    Is his name even real?

    "Obinwanne Okeke"

    That's a name I haven't heard since...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 22 2019, @04:39AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 22 2019, @04:39AM (#883469)

      "Help us, Obin-Wanne. You're our only hope!"

  • (Score: 2) by aiwarrior on Wednesday August 21 2019, @07:46AM (7 children)

    by aiwarrior (1812) on Wednesday August 21 2019, @07:46AM (#883014) Journal

    It is quite stupid to run this kind of scams without some form of concealment. Given that Okeke is a high profile person himself it is also possible that his email was associated as a hiding mechanism. I for sure would do it like this. Nobody is going to believe that a Nigerian did not do it.
    I actually read the article and really, cookies coming from nigeria are so easy to plant.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 21 2019, @09:25AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 21 2019, @09:25AM (#883037)

      This is the type of "proof" they have that Russia tried to access the US election systems. We all know that can't possibly be wrong... so if it's good enough for that it's good enough for this.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 21 2019, @12:13PM (5 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 21 2019, @12:13PM (#883068)

      Ever known or dealt with a Nigerian crook/con artist?

      Chutzpah is too mild a word to use when talking about them, search on Nigerian fraud london...

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 21 2019, @02:07PM (4 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 21 2019, @02:07PM (#883130)

        Ever known or dealt with a Nigerian that wasn't a crook/con artist? Yeah, me neither.

        • (Score: 2) by aiwarrior on Wednesday August 21 2019, @03:49PM (2 children)

          by aiwarrior (1812) on Wednesday August 21 2019, @03:49PM (#883187) Journal

          Have you ever met Okeke? Me neither. Innocent until proven guilty and all that old style thing.
          Presumption of guilt because of nationality is kindergarten level.

          • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 21 2019, @07:57PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 21 2019, @07:57PM (#883288)

            Have you ever met Okeke? Me neither. Innocent until proven guilty and all that old style thing.

            Fair point, refreshingly naive, but fair point.

            Presumption of guilt because of nationality is kindergarten level.

            You do know that back in the 90s and through to at least the early 00's (when i quit full-time IT work, and lost touch) various arms of the UK financial industry had specific sections dealing exclusively with Nigerian fraud ?, not Africans, not Kenyans, not a.n.other African nationality, but Nigerians. The default position taken was to investigate all and any transactions involving the country and it's nationals and treating them all as being suspect until proven otherwise (as an example as to why..one large outgoing transfer of cash back to Nigeria would be easilly spottable, but, when you can hide it split across the thousands of 'normal' transactions of 'people' sending cash back home to 'the family in Nigeria' it's harder to detect, this is organised crime we're talking about here).

            It was quite amusing back then hearing my colleague from Tanzania, happy go lucky normally *very* Christian chap from a village in the foothills of Kilimanjaro, tell the old 'shake hands with a Nigerian, count your fingers afterwards' joke when a conversation veered on to the topic, so it isn't just us who have this 'kindergarden' view of them.

            Am I saying that I believe every Nigerian is born a crook?, no (though sometimes back then I had occasion to wonder..) but I will say that every Nigerian I've had direct dealings with in the course of my working life in the UK has been one, and anecdotally the story is the same (their involvement in counterfeit goods and pension/benefit fraud being the areas I heard most about from other people), selection bias maybe, but that's how it was..

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 21 2019, @08:23PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 21 2019, @08:23PM (#883295)

            Weren't Smollett's "attackers" Nigerian too?

        • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 21 2019, @04:06PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 21 2019, @04:06PM (#883199)

          I only deal with Nigerian Princes.

  • (Score: 2) by Alfred on Wednesday August 21 2019, @02:01PM

    by Alfred (4006) on Wednesday August 21 2019, @02:01PM (#883124) Journal
    The phrase "godless heathens" applies not because they are godless or heathens but because they act the way godless heathens would without morals or thoughts of others. I've know american atheists to act more morally than this type. If the good africans could get a foot in the door it would be a better place. Its like why you can't have an honest politician, actual honesty make you unelectable.
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