Third Nigerian pleads guilty in BEC scams dating back nearly a decade

U.S. prosecutors obtained a guilty plea Thursday from a third Nigerian man accused of participating in a business email compromise (BEC) ring in the mid-2010s. Chibundu Joseph Anuebunwa, 40, admitted to participating in wire fraud conspiracy, according to U.S. attorneys in the Southern District of New York. He and two co-defendants defrauded thousands of victims

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