A Nigerian national has pleaded guilty to running a transnational inheritance fraud scheme that defrauded many elderly and vulnerable people in the United States, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a July 3 statement.
Ehis Lawrence Akhimie, 41, and his co-conspirators allegedly engaged in a scheme in which they sent personalized letters to elderly Americans, enticing them with the promise of receiving nonexistent inheritances.
“The letters falsely claimed that the sender was a representative of a bank in Spain and that the recipient was entitled to receive a multimillion-dollar inheritance left for the recipient by a family member who had died overseas years before,” the DOJ said….