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Olalekan Jacob Ponle, known as “mrwoodbery” to his Instagram followers, flaunted his wealth.
A month later on, the Nigerian, who goes by the name “mrwoodbery” on Instagram, was jailed by Dubai Authorities for alleged money laundering and cyber fraud.
The most popular of the dozen Africans nabbed in the dramatic operation was 37- year-old Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, “hushpuppi” or simply “hush” as he was known by his 2.4 million Instagram followers.
Authorities in the emirate say they recuperated $40 m (₤32 m) in money, 13 high-end cars worth $6.8 m, 21 computer systems, 47 smart devices and the addresses of nearly 2 million victims.
Mr Abbas and Mr Ponle were both extradited to the US and charged in a Chicago court with conspiracy to devote wire fraud and laundering numerous countless dollars obtained from cybercrimes.
The 2 have actually not yet been asked to plead and are presumed innocent up until tested guilty.
” I believe there’s probably a certain arrogance when they believe they’ve taken care about keeping privacy in their online identities, but they live high on the hog and get negligent on social media,” said Glen Donath, a former senior district attorney in the US Attorney’s Workplace in Washington, DC.
It is an amazing crash for the 2 Nigerian guys who extensively documented their ugly, high-flying way of life on social networks, raising questions about the sources of their wealth.
They are implicated of impersonating legitimate staff members of various United States companies in “organisation email compromise” (BEC) schemes and fooling the receivers into electrical wiring millions of dollars into their own accounts.
On Instagram, hushpuppi said he was a genuine estate designer and had a classification of videos called “Flexing” – social media terminology for showing off.
” Abbas financial resources this opulent lifestyle through crime, and he is one of the leaders of a transnational network that helps with computer invasions, fraudulent schemes