It turns out that there is, sometimes, justice in this world:
A dual U.K.-Nigerian national who was extradited to the United States from the United Kingdom was sentenced to 90 months in prison for his role in a transnational inheritance fraud scheme.
The crook in this case, 44-year-old Iheanyichukwu Jonathan Abraham, was "part of a group of fraudsters that sent personalized letters to elderly victims in the United States," telling them that a bank in Spain was holding a multi-million-dollar inheritance from a deceased Portuguese relative.
Here's the perp in question:
Victims were told that to claim their inheritance they had to "send money for delivery fees and taxes and were instructed to make other payments." The Department of Justice said earlier this year that the scammers had gotten away with "over $6 million from more than 400 victims," many of whom "were elderly or otherwise vulnerable."
The crooks had somehow used a bizarrely complex web of former and current victims to move all that money, including "convinc[ing] former victims to receive money from new victims and then forward the fraud proceeds to others."
Abraham and his co-conspirators received prison sentences similar to his.
They all got lucky: The scumbags were facing up to 20 years in prison, which I feel would have been warranted under the circumstances.
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