A court in Vietnam has sentenced two Nigerian men whose names are, Christian Nnadike, 34, and Collins Deke, 37, (pictured above) to 12 years in prison each in Vietnam for hacking into the electronic mails of some local companies, and also contacted the company’s foreign partners and swindle them of their money.
These two men Christian and Collins were given prison sentences alongside their accomplice, who actually is a Vietnamese female bearing the name Le Thi Kim Quyen , who was also sentenced to 15 years in prison. Le Thi has a husband named Mark Mamado Abdallah 39, who is currently at large. She, her husband and the other two Nigerian men mentioned ran a scamming syndicate in Vietnam.
A court hearing which took place in April, disclosed that the men and their accomplice were guilty of another fraud scheme where they pretended to be a British friend of two Vietnamese women on Facebook and allegedly asked them to send money as shipping fees to receive gifts.
According to the statement by prosecutors, the group defrauded many unsuspecting victims of over VND3.3 billion (US$150,000) between April and August 2013. Most of which came from the email hacking scheme.
The Prosecutors also stated that over these four months, the vietnamese woman, Quyen and her Nigerian husband, Abdallah hacked into the emails of several Vietnamese companies doing business with foreign companies.
They also allegedly gave the information to Nnadikwe and then Deke, who would later transfer it to another Nigerian man living in Malaysia.
This unknown man in Malaysia then uses the compromised email accounts to contact the victims’ foreign partners, asking them to send payments to a bank account opened by Quyen and Abdallah.
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