Popular Yoruba Fraudster In US, Daniel Ojo Jailed in North Carolina After FBI Picked Him Up

A Nigerian, Daniel Ojo, who has spent less than 14 months in the United States, has been arrested by the FBI in Durham, North Carolina and charged with fraud and identity theft offences.

The offences stemmed from Mr. Ojo’s phishing scheme, using an AOL and GMail email accounts that targeted school districts in Connecticut and Minnesota in an effort to get employees’ personal information and file bogus tax returns.

His arrest was announced Friday by Deirdre Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Patricia Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Joel Garland, Special Agent in Charge of Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation in New England
Following his arrest at his Durham residence, Mr. Ojo appeared before a U.S. magistrate judge in Greensboro, N.C., and was ordered detained pending his transfer to the District of Connecticut.

Prosecutors said a school district employee in Glastonbury, Connecticut, received an email in February that appeared to be sent by another employee, who asked for tax information for 1,600 school district workers. The worker who received the email then forwarded the information, which was used in the scheme to file 122 bogus tax returns seeking nearly $600,000 in refunds, authorities said.

Officials said the Internal Revenue Service processed about six of the fake returns and electronically deposited nearly $37,000 in refunds to various bank accounts.
Investigators linked the email sent to the employee to Mr. Ojo, prosecutors said.
Officials also believe Mr. Ojo was involved in similar email schemes targeting school districts in Groton, Connecticut, and Bloomington, Minnesota.
In March, a Groton school employee emailed tax information of 1,300 employees in response to an email that appeared to be from the superintendent of schools. Authorities said the information was used to file about 66 fraudulent tax returns seeking about $364,000 in refunds. Officials said the fake returns weren’t processed because they had been flagged as being part of an identity theft scheme after school employees discovered the problem.

Prosecutors also said they linked the email account used by Mr. Ojo to a similar scam that obtained tax information for about 2,800 school employees in Bloomington earlier this year.
Eric Placke, a federal public defender in North Carolina who represented Mr. Ojo only for his initial court appearance, declined to comment Friday. It’s not clear who Mr. Ojo’s attorney will be in Connecticut.

Authorities said Mr. Ojo entered the U.S. in May 2016 on a visitor’s visa and failed to leave on his scheduled departure date in June 2016.
Mr. Daly urged the public to double-check links and email addresses before clicking on and responding to them, to avoid becoming an identity theft victim.

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Posted: at 6-08-2017 06:20 AM (6 years ago) | Addicted Hero

Please Give Them Oduduwa.Too Hopeless.Nawaa O!

Posted: at 6-08-2017 07:49 AM (6 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Omg this guy just went there for fraud

Posted: at 6-08-2017 08:11 AM (6 years ago) | Hero

Nigeria is a country dominated pain, sorrow, intimidations, corruptions, killings, rituals, stealing, terrorist, hating other ethnic, religious problems, ethnic problem. So who are we to blame? Blame the leaders on your bullshit country known as Nigeria cause they are the one causing all this violent in Nigeria still some fools will come here and talk bullshit cause they have never lived abroad before. Travel abroad and you will know that Nigeria is far behind a normal and a well respect country. Ghana has more respect as a country than Nigeria in the world. Your govt wants bad name for the country and prefer to have Billions of Dollars in there foreign act rather than see Nigeria becomes a better country. Let every share jare.
That country is already sinking into the pit of hell

Posted: at 6-08-2017 10:30 AM (6 years ago) | Newbie

@justix2bb OUR GREAT NATION ISN'T SINKING, YOU SINKING MINDED PEOPLE HAPPENS TO BE BRINGING THE COUNTRY DOWN WITH SOCIAL MEDIA FAKE NEWS! HATRED, TRIBAL WAR,ETC,  SOME YEARS AGO IN GERMANY I CAN HARDLY ANSWER TO THE NAME NIGERIAN, BUT NOW I AM VERY PROUD TO CALL MYSELF A NIGERIAN... LET'S LEAVE THIS TRIBAL WAR AND DEAL WITH THIS POLITHIEFIANS PLAYING GAMES TO DIVERT OUR ATTENTIONS FROM THERE LOOTING, RAISING PEOPLE LIKE NNAMDI KANU, A BOY OF YESTERDAY HUSTLING LIKE OSHIOMLE, ONCE THEY GIVE HIM POWER AS GOVERNOR HE WILL ALSO SHUT UP! WE KNOW THEM WELLA !... IGBOS ARE  FOOLS THEY WILL NEVER WISE UP, DUE TO LACK OF EDUCATION WHICH BRINGS IGNORANCE TO THEIR WHOLE ENTIRE COMMUNITY, HOW CAN YOU DEVELOP ANOTHER MAN'S LAND AND LEAVE YOURS IN SHAMBLES???  HAHAHAHA!!   DURING THE TIME UNITED STATES ECONOMY GOT INFECTED, THEY WENT FOR ARRESTING OSAMA BIN LADEN TO RELIEVE THE COMPLAIN OF THEIR PEOPLE JUST TO DIVERT THEM, BUT IN NIGERIA, TOO MANY FOOLS LIKE @FREETHINKER, REPRESENTING A COUNTRY THAT NEVER EXIST AND WILL NEVER EXIST ! WILL CONTINUE RANTING HATRED FOR NO REASON, THAT IS EXACTLY WHY STUPID FELLOW LIKE HIM WILL END UP BEEN USED FOR MONEY RITUAL ! ! ! #NOBRAIN#LOL

Posted: at 6-08-2017 05:17 PM (6 years ago) | Upcoming

UTTERLY USELESS

Posted: at 8-08-2017 02:17 PM (6 years ago) | Hero