The scam involved an email from someone claiming to be Nigerian royalty who tell the recipient that they are the beneficiary in a will to inherit an estate worth a million or more. Slidell Police financial crimes investigators arrested Neu for 269 counts of wire fraud and money laundering.
The email solicits the recipient's personal financial information to prove they are beneficiary and to speed the transfer of funds.
Neu is suspected to be a middle man who participated in hundreds of financial transactions that conned money from victims across the United States. Some of the money obtained by Neu were believed to be wired to co-conspirators in Nigeria.
Meanwhile, NAIJ.com previously reported that Kennedy Chukwuemeka Nwabuoku, a US-based Nigerian businessman has reportedly been scammed in Lagos state for paying 150 plots of land valued at N787.5 million. Nwabuoku explained that he on February paid N577, 590, 792 in installments among other charges, plus another N18million for bush clearing to the land agents. He made this known to detectives by DCP Abutu Yaro, at the Force Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Department (FCIID), Alagbon, area of the state.
via Loud Naija Media
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