A Nigerian citizen has confessed to masterminding a multi-million-dollar international inheritance scam that targeted elderly or vulnerable Americans.
In a new press release, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) says that 41-year-old Ehis Lawrence Akhimie has pleaded guilty to operating a transnational inheritance fraud scheme that defrauded over $6 million from more than 400 victims over the course of several years.
Authorities say that Akhimie and his co-conspirators sent letters to their victims in the US falsely claiming they were representatives of a bank in Spain. The scammers told the recipients that their relative had died in another country and left them with a multi-million-dollar inheritance.
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The bad actors also told their victims that if they wanted to receive the inheritance, they would need to
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