A U.S. federal judge sentenced a Nigerian national to four years in prison for running several cyber-enabled schemes aimed at defrauding U.S. citizens out of more
his bank initially declined to cover him because the criminal used an american account until radio 4 s money box programme intervened. it started like many of the investigations we do here on money box with an e mail from one of our listeners adam, that s james s son. he e mailed a couple of weeks ago and explained what had happened to his father. and in short, what had happened is this. over the course of 13 months, criminals had scammed and then stolen £153,000 from james, the victim, by indoctrinating him, by grooming him into believing that he was actually helping a woman in the united states escape an abusive relationship and then to help pay for these expensive medical bills. now, the transfers that the criminals encouraged him to make started off small, then they got larger and larger. there were multiple transfers of £10,000, a few of £15,000. and james was so deceived by this web of lies that these criminals had spun, the fraud was only discovered
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