US court
Two Nigerians, Anthony Ibekie and Samuel Aniukwu, have been sentenced by a United States federal jury to 30 years combined jail term for defrauding some US citizens of $3,500,000.
This was contained in a press release made available on the US Department of Justice website and obtained by PUNCH Metro on Monday.
According to the statement, the duo of Ibekie and Aniukwu deceived their victims by telling them that they had received substantial inheritances that required some money to claim.
The duo would then request their victims to send some amounts of money with a promise to refund them once the inheritances were claimed.
It also noted that the duo carried out romance scams by establishing romantic relationships with their victims and demanding them to send money after they had built trust in their victims.
It read, “An undercover law enforcement investigation has resulted in federal prison sentences for two Nigerian nationals residing in the Chicago suburbs who conducted online inheritance scams and other fraud schemes.
“Using aliases, Anthony Emeka Ibekie and Samuel Aniukwu communicated with victims throughout the United States, convincing them they had received substantial inheritances and needed to send money to individuals associated with the defendants in order to claim it.
