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11/04/2024
Nigerian man sentenced in Nebraska for $6 million wire fraud scheme
Nebraska Now
LINCOLN, Neb. (KLKN) – A Nigerian man was sentenced Thursday for stealing more than $6 million in a wire fraud scheme that victimized two Nebraska businesses.
Alex Ogunshakin, 41, was sentenced to three years and nine months in federal prison.
He will then spend three years on supervised release before being deported.
From January 2015 to September 2016, Ogunshakin participated in a scheme to defraud U.S.-based businesses.
As a part of the scheme, he and others used compromised email accounts to send spoofed content to thousands of business employees who handled accounting.
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