➠ US sends million-dollar scammer to prison for four years
31-year-old Solomon Ekunke Okpe, of Lagos, was a member of a gang that devised and executed a variety of scams - including business email compromise (BEC), romance scams, working-from-home scams, and more - between December 2011 and January 2017. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog....
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