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#255315 by TerranceBoyce Tue Jun 09, 2015 1:11 pm
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/champagneloving-conman-nicknamed-fizzy-ordered-to-hand-over-assets-to-pay-back-victims-of-euromillions-fraud-10306669.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3116980/Fraudster-ordered-pay-just-160-000-1million-criminal-gains.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

9 June 2015

Champagne-loving conman nicknamed 'Fizzy' ordered to hand over assets to pay back victims of 'Euromillions' fraud. Frank Onyeachonam, 39, was convicted of conspiracy to defraud in June 2014 and jailed for eight years.

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Onyeachonam, 39, ran the UK end of global lottery scam that was orchestrated from his native Nigeria for seven years to fund his lavish millionaire's lifestyle.

One vulnerable victim in the US lost her home and £60,000 while a British victim ran up debts of £90,000.

Now, after a financial investigation by organised crime busters the National Crime Agency (NCA), he has been ordered to hand over all his assets - £158,149 - in compensation.

He will have to sell a house in Nigeria to raise the cash, the NCA said. If Onyeachonam, of Canning Town, east London fails to pay the sum back within 12 months he will face a further three years in prison

"Should any additional assets derived from Onyeachonam’s criminality be identified, the NCA will seek to have them confiscated."

The Met - alongside the US Postal Service, IRS and FBI in the States, and the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission - worked with the NCA on Fizzy's prosecution.

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