CHICAGO – A man from Nigeria has been arrested after being accused of running a $50 million scheme that targeted Chicago companies.

Olalekan Jacob Ponle allegedly got an unnamed Chicago-based company to wire transfer more than $15 million. Another local company lost $2.3 million, but investigators believe the scheme is worth more than $50 million.

Sources pointed WGN Investigates to his Instagram feed which looks like a lifestyle of the rich and famous.

Here’s how prosecutors said the alleged scheme worked.

Either he or his co-conspirators were able to gain access to company’s email accounts through a phishing attack.

In one of the Chicago cases, they allegedly sent an email that appeared to be from the company’s Chief Accounting Officer to another employee ordering the a transfer.

The criminal complaint says “The fraudulent email was almost identical to a prior, legitimate email” right down to the name on the bank account. But the account “number” was different.

Federal agents said Ponle’s scheme spanned at least 9 months last year.

During that time, one of his Instagram posts read: “Money don’t make a man, a man makes money.”

Ponle is a Nigerian national and was taken into custody in the United Arab Emirates. UAE expelled him and federal agents brought Ponle to Chicago Thursday night for an initial court appearance Friday morning.

A detention hearing is schedule for late next week.

https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-investigates/feds-nigerian-scammer-arrested-in-50m-scheme-that-targeted-chicago-companies/

Hiaaaaan!
We never talk Ramon Igbalode own finis and now this.
Wire Pandemic!!

Warris this

Afonja always tarnishing our pretty image, with d information on my deck hushpuppppppi is an afonja. A tribe call afonja is is doing pretty cool in crime.

Olalekan Ponle aka Woodberry ...

He’s not a Nigerian scammer. He’s a scammer of Nigerian origin. NL needs to do more about the tarnishing of the Nigerian image. This website propagates and destroys that image more than any other medium

Their thievery obviously affect their dress sense.

Very tacky, wacky, and overkill.


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Omo na wah o! This is getting too much.

Na Hushpuppi nigga. Dem never finish.

Maxymilliano:
Olalekan Ponle aka Woodberry ...

Soldier of same struggle

Again

it would appear that white bloggers are doing everything possible to tarnish whatever that is remaining of Nigeria image,funny enough, Nigeria bloggers are helping them to carry out this act,imagine some Russians being involved in hushpuppy's case and yet no one heard of it,it has always been only Nigeria names on the front pages of all the newspapers worldwide,just these morning,I saw a headline where one white blogger tagged all Nigerians fraudsters, Nigerias need to rise against this agenda from the whites,you can't tag me a fraudster because you caught my fellow countryman in such act whereas your own countrymen commits more heinous acts...... NIGERIANS ARE NOT FRAUDSTERS,WE ONLY HAVE FEW BAD EGGS AMONG US EVEN LESS THAN WHAT YOU WHITES HAVE IN YOUR VARIOUS COUNTRIES.....

They should kuku tarnish the small image left of Nigeria.
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Nigerians are now associated with cyber crimes & the politicians are notorious looters... known worldwide . Shame!

Mayng01:
Nigerians are now associated with cyber crimes & the politicians are notorious looters... known worldwide . Shame!

very sad reality

CYBERWEAVER:
Again

Bye Bye Hushpuppy and Friends. See you in the next fee decades


Do the crime, pay the time.