A 41-year-old Nigerian national has been sentenced in Nebraska in connection to an elaborate scheme targeting business executives’ email addresses to get wire transfers and preying on others by masquerading as love interests.
In U.S. District Court in Omaha on Thursday, Senior U.S. District Judge John Gerrard sentenced Alex Ogunshakin to three years and nine months in federal prison, plus three years of supervised release, for conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Alex Ogunshakin
He pleaded guilty to the charge.
After he serves his sentence, Ogunshakin, who was arrested in Nigeria and extradited to the United States last year to face the indictment, will be subject to removal from the country.
He had been on the FBI Cyber’s Most Wanted List.
According to the indictment, between 2015 and Sept. 26, 2016, the scammers spoofed email addresses, posing as real CEOs or other business executives, to direct employees to make wire transfers from business accounts.
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The two unnamed companies in Nebraska together lost more than $530,000 before realizing it was a scam, prosecutors say.
Lehr said Ogunshakin and his co-conspirators committed the crimes from outside the United States, mostly from Nigeria.
One of his co-conspirators, Adewale Akinloye, was sentenced to eight years in prison in February 2019.
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