Instagram star gets 11 years for $300m email scam plot
Abbas and his pals used business email compromise attacks to steal money from a number of companies around the world, as well as private individuals, and even an unnamed English Premier League football club.
BEC can also be used to obtain sensitive data – such as employment records from HR departments – that can be sold online. According to the FBI,are on the rise due to how lucrative they can be – just 19,954 victims handed over $2.4 billion last year, apparently. Abbas was also involved in the theft of approximately $992,857 from a New York law firm in 2019, and also admitted in his plea agreement that he had conspired to scam a Qatari individual seeking a $15m loan to build a school.Crucially, Abbas was collared by the Feds for conspiring to launder more than $300 million, and as far as prosecutors could demonstrate, much of this was just planned.
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