40-year-old Nigerian, Adekunle Adetiloye, 40, has been sentenced to 17 years and 10 months imprisonment in North Dakota, United States for credit card fraud.
US Attorney Timothy Purdon said, "The sentence imposed on Tuesday should send a strong message to those who would seek to scam the citizens and businesses of North Dakota and the United States.
"We take the growing problem of foreign financial fraud seriously here and seeking justice for the victims of such crimes is a priority for our office."
On February 16, 2011, Adetiloye pleaded guilty to participating in a scheme to defraud both financial institutions and individuals of money.
Adetiloye was living in Toronto, Canada before January 2005 until he was extradited to the US in May 2010. During that time, Adetiloye funded a lavish lifestyle by conducting, with others, a massive fraud scheme accomplished by executing tens of thousands of fraudulent acts against individuals, financial institutions, commercial data providers, merchants, commercial mailbox companies and state agencies.
Adetiloye's scheme compromised the personal and private information of approximately 38,000 American citizens. The scheme involved tens of thousands of acts of illegal conduct throughout the US, as well as in Canada and England.
Adetiloye and his co-conspirators fraudulently obtained the personal identification information from commercial data providers, such as LexisNexis and ChoicePoint, and with that information assumed the identities of those unsuspecting people to open credit card and other bank accounts at US bank and 20 other banks across the US.
He used well over 100 different mail box addresses throughout the United States as well as approximately 100 different phone numbers with area codes representing all parts of the US.
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Credit card fraud: Nigerian jailed for 17 years in US
Credit card fraud: Nigerian jailed for 17 years in US
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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Na wah for all these Yoruba 419ers. When are they going to stop messing us up?
ReplyDeleteall most of them do down there is defrauding foreingners and even their nigerians brothers and sisters. they are just disgrace to this country, cos of this the real ones that go obtain visas are treated with so much hatred and discrimination at the embassies. He should face the music, we are tired of their embarassment. They have given this nation terrible names all over the world. Lazy yoruba men who wants to live real big by lavishly stolen money in buying all manner of designers stuff. Mmschewwwwwwwwwww!
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