FBI: Like Lagos Yahoo Boy has N460m trump frozen …

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) revealed that an Nigerian internet scammer, heyremen Aigbokhan, orchestrated a sophisticated computer scam that has subtracted over N460 million intended for the inauguration of the President of the United States Donald Trump on January 20, 2025.

The FBI revealed it through a civil decadence report filed before a district court of the United States.

The Bureau has revealed as Aigbokhan, operating from Lagos State, made an fraud based on the cryptocurrency that exploited vulnerability in digital communication systems.

The operation was performed a few weeks before Trump’s inauguration in January.

The FBI is now looking for a formal arrest warrant for Aigbokhan, which is also facing accusations relating to money laundering and thread fraud.

The authorities said that the case revolves around a company-e-mail compromise scheme (BEC)-a notorious cyber crime tacticity used to impersonate high-level officials or trusted contacts in order to deceive the victims in the transfer of large sums of money.

The court documents showed that the authors created falsified e-mail addresses almost identical to those of real officials in the inaugural committee of Trump-Vance.

A fraudulent e-mail address, @t47lnagural.com, was used to impersonate the COPRESENCA of the Committee, Steve Witkoff, whose legitimate e-mail ends with @t47inaugral.com.

On December 26, 2024, the victim, unaware of the deception, transferred 250,300 USDT.eth (a cryptocurrency anchored to the US dollar and hosted on the Ethereum blockchain), evaluated at over N400 million at that moment.

Following the receipt of the funds, the scammers quickly dispersed 215,000 USDT. More digital wallets in an attempt to hide the monetary track.

However, the FBI took the wind of suspected transactions over time and, in coordination with the tether of the cryptocurrency company, frozen the accounts implicated on December 31, 2024.

The FBI forensic analysis tracked down the origin of the fraudulent e -mails and the activity of the portfolio in Nigeria, with IP addresses of access repeatedly that identify Lagos as the hub of the operations.

A turning point came when the investigators connected the fraudulent wallet to a Binance.com account created Aigbokhan in October 2024.

The registers show that the same binance portfolio has been used to unplug part of the proceeds recycled from the scam, further consolidating the role of Aigbokhan as a key suspicion.

The United States Department of Justice has already seized 20.017 USDT.ETH from the AIGBOKHAN portfolio and 20,336 USDT.eth by another connected portfolio (identified as 0xc7bdba7ffb126f68e8454), equal to over N60 million at the prevailing black market rate.

The US Procurator Rick Blaylock Jr., representing the Columbia district, is now asking the Court to approve the decline of the seized digital activities.

The FBI has also confirmed that active measures are taken to arrest Aigbokhan and any accomplice involved in what is now one of the most brazen cases of IT crime linked to a presidential event of the United States.

The officials did not reveal if the diplomatic channels have been activated to facilitate Aigbokhan’s extradition from Nigeria. [The Star]

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