Nigerian man sentenced for $7.5 million corporate email scam

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Olusegun Adejorin, 32, was sentenced to 96 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release after a jury convicted him of wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and unauthorized access to a protected computer. Prosecutors showed he ran a corporate email compromise scheme between June and August 2020 that used fake domains and hijacked employee email accounts to cause more than $7.5 million to be transferred from a Maryland organization to unrelated bank accounts, with a New York charity targeted; the FBI extradited him from Ghana in August 2024 and U.S. prosecutors handled the case.

Defendant received 96 months for stealing more than $7.5 million