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Ezennia Peter Neboh, a Nigerian residing in Spain, has been sentenced to 128 months in prison by a US District Court for his role in a transnational inheritance fraud scheme.
According to a statement on the website of the US Justice Department, Neboh, 48, was the leader of a crime syndicate responsible for sending personalised letters to elderly victims in the United States.
Members of the group claimed they were representatives of a bank in Spain and that their elderly recipients were entitled to multimillion-dollar inheritances left for them by family members who had died years before in Portugal.
Before they could receive their purported inheritance, the victims were told, they had to pay for delivery. They were also instructed by members of the syndicate to make other payments.
The elderly victims were said to have sent the money to the fraudsters through a complex web of US-based former victims.
Through the complex web, the gang could convince former victims to receive money from new victims and then instruct them to forward the fraud proceeds to other victims.
Neboh was sentenced on November 2. Nigerian syndicate members previously extradited from Spain and sentenced for the same crime include Kennedy Ikponmwosa, Emmanuel Samuel, Jerry Chucks Ozo and…
