Two Nigerians sentenced to 189 months in US prison over $2.4m cyber fraud

The PIO noted that both convicts were members of the US Air Force when they and their co-conspirators attacked business victims across the country for nearly two years using email “spamming” and phishing campaigns.

Tubbs stated, “They and their co-conspirators then used these stolen credentials, along with ‘spoofed’ email addresses mimicking emails associated with the victim or its business partners, to communicate with their victims and redirect payments to and from the victims’ trusted business partners to accounts controlled by the defendants’ co-conspirators.

The PIO stated that the defendants and their co-conspirators also used “spoofed” email addresses mimicking those associated with victims or their business partners to communicate with the businesses and redirect payments to accounts controlled by the conspiracy.