has declared a Nigerian, Kelechi Declan James, wanted
for $5 million e-mail scam.
The
FBI
made
this
known
on its
Twitter handle and its website on Friday, according to
online portal, Premium Times.
According to the FBI, the accused has federal criminal
charges against him from an investigation by FBI New
York’s Cyber Crime Task Force.
As alleged in a complaint sworn out of the US District
Court for the Southern District of New York, Mr. James,
along with four other co-conspirators, ran an e-mail
compromise scheme that resulted in losses of more
than $5 million for their victims.
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As part of the scheme, the suspect and his co-
conspirators allegedly defrauded victims across the US
by tricking them into wiring money to bank accounts the
victims believed were owned by friends or business
associates.
account of an individual trusted by the victim and then
requesting money be wired to a bank account; or by
developing a relationship of trust with victim, like an
Internet romance, and then asking the victim to wire
money, the American agency said.
As soon as the money was wired, it would be moved
from one account to another, and the funds would be
withdrawn.
Mr. James’s role in this scheme was to withdraw the
money from bank accounts, the FBI said.
“James is known to frequent the Brooklyn neighborhoods
of East New York (Crescent Street and Loring Avenue;
Vermont Street between Blake Avenue and Dumont
Avenue), Brownsville, Bedford-Stuyvesant (MacDougal
and Hull Streets), Crown Heights (Park Place and Utica
Avenue), Flatbush (E 29th and Avenue D), and East
Flatbush (East 51st and Winthrop Street),” the agency
said.
The FBI offered a $1,000 reward for information that
could lead to his arrest.
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