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Two Nigerians Sentenced to Prison in US for BEC Fraud

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September 5, 2024 at 07:12AM Two Nigerian nationals, Ebuka Raphael Umeti, 35, and Franklin Ifeanyichukwu Okwonna, 34, were sentenced in the US for running a business email compromise (BEC) scheme. Umeti received a 10-year prison term, while Okwonna got five years and three months. They were ordered to pay roughly $5 million in restitution for … Read more

Former Avaya employee gets 4 years for $88M license piracy scheme

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July 29, 2024 at 02:05PM Three individuals involved in a large-scale software pirating operation, selling unauthorized Avaya business telephone system software licenses worth over $88,000,000, were sentenced to prison. The individuals, Raymond Bradley “Brad” Pearce, Dusti O. Pearce, and Jason M. Hines, pleaded guilty and were ordered to forfeit between $2 to $4 million as … Read more