Two Nigerians Have Been Sent To 12 Years In Prison In Vietnam For Fraud

A Vietnamese court has sentenced two Nigerian,
Christian Nnadike, 34, and Collins Deke, 37,
(pictured above) to 12 years each in a Vietnam
prison for hacking into emails of local
companies, contact the company's foreign
partners and swindle them of their money.
The men along with a Vietnamese female
accomplice, Le Thi Kim Quyen, 35, who was
sentenced to 15 years in prison and another
Nigerian, de facto husband of the Vietnamese
lady, Mark Mamado Abdallah, 39, who is
currently at large, ran a scamming syndicate in
Vietnam.
At the court hearing which took play in April, the
men and their accomplice were also found guilty
of another fraud scheme in which they pretended
to be a British friend of two Vietnamese women
on Facebook and asked them to send money as
shipping fees to receive gifts.
According to prosecutors, the group defrauded
many unsuspecting victims of over VND3.3
billion (US$150,000) between April and August
2013. Most of this came from the email hacking
scheme.
Prosecutors said over the four months, the
vietnamese woman, Quyen and her Nigerian
husband, Abdallah hacked into the emails of
several Vietnamese companies doing business
with foreign companies.
They gave the information to Nnadikwe and then
Deke, who would later transfer it to another
Nigerian man living in Malaysia.
The unknown man in Malaysia then used the
compromised email accounts to contact the
victims’ foreign partners, asking them to send
payments to a bank account opened by Quyen
and Abdallah.