Six Nigerian Residents Added to the US Sanctions Listing for Cybercrimes

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Six Nigerian Residents Added to the US Sanctions Listing for Cybercrimes

The workplace of International Property Management of the U.S. Division of the Treasury introduced on June 16 the addition of six Nigerian people t



The workplace of International Property Management of the U.S. Division of the Treasury introduced on June 16 the addition of six Nigerian people to the sanctions listing for cybercrimes.

Based on the official announcement, Nnamdi Orson Benson, Abiola Ayorinde Kayode, Alex Afolabi Ogushakin, Felix Osilama Okpoh, Micheal Olorunyomi, and Richard Izuchukwu Uzuh are the people that joined to the “OFAC’s Particular Designated Nationals” listing.

Particular cybercrime-related points authority given to the U.S. Treasury

The announcement doesn’t identify the allegations in opposition to the brand new specifically designated nationals. Nonetheless, the “CYBER2” classification derives from the Obama administration, which issued an government order establishing the class on April 1, 2015.

The chief order licensed the Treasury to take actions in opposition to cybercrime-related points, together with the promulgation of guidelines and laws.

Latest cybercrime-related case involving a “Nigerian ring”

On Could 16, the U.S. Secret Service began to flow into a memo warning a few “well-organized” Nigerian cybercrime ring that dedicated a large-scale fraud in opposition to a number of state unemployment insurance coverage by impersonating folks by means of the submission of functions by means of the U.S. Inside Income Service (IRS) web site, with potential losses within the “a whole lot of thousands and thousands of {dollars}.”

Nonetheless, authorities haven’t confirmed that such cybercrime case is expounded to the current U.S. Treasury’s itemizing, nor disclosed extra data on the particular crimes the Nigerian people dedicated.



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