Nigerian Scammer Arrested for $1 Million Fraud by FBI
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), just announced the arrest of a 34 years old Nigerian scammer, Charles Onus, who was allegedly involved in a fraudulent diversion of more than $800,000 payroll funds to prepaid debit cards.
This occurred few weeks after the arrest of Abidemi Rufai (Ogun State Governor’s Aide) for fraudulent transactions in the U.S.
The U.S Department of Justice made this known in a statement they issued, which cited the arrest of Charles Onus in San Francisco on April 14, 2021, and has been detained till he was presented in Manhattan Federal court, before Magistrate Judge Sarah L. Cave on June 3, 2021. Onus’s case was assigned to U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe.
When these events happened around July 2017 to 2018, the Nigerian scammer was allegedly involved in a scheme to perform cyber intrusions of several user accounts managed by a company that offers human resources and payroll services to employers across the U.S., to steal payroll deposits that have been processed by the company.
It was stated that he gained unauthorized access to about 5,500 Company user accounts via a cyber-intrusion medium known as “credential stuffing.”
He is charged with a count of computer fraud for destroying a well-secured computer, and the penalty for this is a sentence of 10 years in prison. While the penalty for a count of computer fraud for unauthorized access to a well-protected computer to perform intended fraud with a count of receipt of stolen money is five years in prison for each.
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The person handling the prosecution is Assistant U.S. Attorney Sagar K. Ravi, while the Prosecuting unit in charge of this case is the Office Complex Frauds and cybercrime unit.
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