wire fraud

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Ridwan Adepoju, a Nigerian national, has been sentenced to 43 months in U.S. federal prison for his involvement in a series of cyber fraud schemes targeting American …

YONKERS, NY / BRADFORD, PA — A New York man has been sentenced to prison for defrauding a Pennsylvania bank and is now wanted for a separate $810,000 tax refund …

PHOENIX, Ariz. — Three women from the Phoenix Valley have been sentenced for their roles in a COVID-19 unemployment fraud scheme that involved filing fake benefit claims using stolen identities, …

PHOENIX, Ariz. — A Jamaican man accused of running a romance scam that defrauded an 85-year-old Arizona woman out of $400,000 has been extradited to the United States to face …

WAUSAU, WI — A Wausau man is facing federal charges after allegedly orchestrating a multimillion-dollar investment fraud scheme that ran for nearly six years. Stanley Pophal, 63, was charged in …

OCALA, Fla. — A 61-year-old licensed mental health counselor from Ocala, Michelle Forsythe, has been indicted on 14 counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft in …

MIAMI (AP) — Jorge Hernández, a former top informant for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), has been arrested and charged with conspiring to extort suspected drug traffickers by falsely …

Nigerian national Promise Okafor is serving a nine-year federal prison sentence in the United States for masterminding a multi-state unemployment benefits scam that netted over $2.7 million. He was arrested …

Three separate indictments involving Ghanaian nationals have been unsealed in the United States as part of a major federal crackdown on transnational romance fraud schemes targeting elderly Americans. The U.S. …

Five Nigerian fraudsters have been sentenced to a combined total of 1,549 months (129 years) in prison for orchestrating a multimillion-dollar scam targeting at least 100 victims in the United …