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Thursday, October 6, 2022

F.B.I arrest three Nigerian teenagers for defrauding Arizona, California, North Carolina of $1.4million (N580 million) jobless benefits claim


The F.B.I has cracked down on three Nigerian teenagers for defrauding Arizona, California, North Carolina of $1.4million (N580 million) Jobless benefits claim…

The suspects are Quazeem Owolabi Adeyinka, 20; Ayodeji Jonathan Sangode, 22; and Olamide Yusuf Bakare.

They were rrested after being caught by security cameras of Automated Teller Machines withdrawing huge sums of money  

Bank of America (BofA) records show that 175 prepaid cards worth more than $1.4 million total from Maryland were sent to the suspects’ addresses. 

The funds were depleted through purchases, transfers, and ATM cash withdrawals conducted in California, Florida, and Maryland. 

ATM withdrawals alone amounted to over $989,000’, other funds according to prosecutors.

The suspects were said to have used an address located at 3217 75th Avenue in Hyattsville, Maryland, to defraud the state of California of over $1.2 million, with an attempted loss of more than $2.6 million. 

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