An Atlanta-area woman involved in an online romance scam that duped victims out of $820,449 avoided a prison term Tuesday, even though a federal judge admonished her for taking a
How feds say Atlanta man catfished Western New Yorker out of more than $220,000
Updated 10:24 PM;
Buffalo, N.Y. An Atlanta man was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday for his role in a romance scheme that defrauded a person from Western New York out of more than $220,000, according to federal prosecutors.
Tochukwu Okerulu, aka MT, 35, was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering, according to a news release issued by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York.
Okerulu was accused of participating in a scheme to obtain money and property from an unsuspecting person using romantic language and appealing to the person’s emotions, prosecutors said.