How ATM cameras caught three Nigerians in alleged $1.4 unemployment fraud in America

In what appears an endless loop of culpability, tens of Nigerians have been jailed or are facing prosecution in the United States in connection with pandemic unemployment benefits fraud.

The latest are three compatriots whose indictments were recently unveiled in a California court by US prosecutors, who allege that the trio stole more than $1.4 million in jobless benefits from the US states of Arizona, California, North Carolina, and Maryland.

The men—Quazeem Owolabi Adeyinka, 20; Ayodeji Jonathan Sangode, 22; and Olamide Yusuf Bakare—filed for unemployment benefits more than 200 times from the four states, all using two addresses in Hyattsville, Maryland, documents say.

Agents have determined that at least Adeyinka and Sangode are currently the residents of one of the addresses, which has been another location of criminal activity including unemployment fraud for much of 2020 and 2021. Bakare, in a separate case in 2019, had pled guilty to identity fraud.

The 26-page indictment seen by Nigeria Abroad says the Nigerians also filed for fraudulent unemployment claims in the states of Hawaii, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Texas, Washington, and West Virginia.

Unlike the other four states, these states do not necessarily use Bank of America (BofA) to disperse their Unemployment Insurance (UI) funds and thus their benefit payouts would not be reflected in the BofA data provided to the investigation.

BofA records show that 175 prepaid cards worth more than $1.4 million total—$158,000 of which came from Maryland—were sent to the accused’s addresses.

The funds were depleted through purchases, transfers, and ATM cash withdrawals conducted in California, Florida, and Maryland, according to prosecutors. ATM withdrawals alone amounted to over $989,000.

According to BofA’s footage, Sangode’s Hyundai (MD license plate 3DS7400) was surveilled at a BofA drive-through ATM located at 3413 Kenilworth Ave, Hyattsville, Maryland. The driver of the vehicle resembles Sangode based on a comparison using his MD driver’s license photo, the indictment says.

❌❌❌Arrfonjites & financial online
scams na like foolaniy & banditry... they
can't survive without committing...☹️☹️

Wey u suppose park car very far from atm,buy ski mask,buy shoe filler increase your height,buy baggy balloon jacket,buy black mask, dey go atm
. E nor get how fbi wan catch u. But as a mumu afonja u enter atm with your car,still get mind dey make calls forgetting that usa,na camera country. U go Greet hushpuppy for jail ok. At least 20years sure for u. Hahahahahahaha. Picker has been finally picked. Haha

Dem no wan work but dem wan ball.

She work no dey America too?

Criminals.

Jail thrm for life.

Unfortunate smart guys

Their fowl don lay cooked eggs...

Real Niggas anytime any day, unfortunately for this one they end up in the FBI list...

See as ATM camara sharp for that way unlike my mother country by now this Niggas for no see this bursting coming

This once dem don enter one chance. #Laa n' udo.

But how did they become so vulnerable to all these unemployment scams of recent.

$1.4 million deal @ 20.
Had it been they succeeded and shared funds, Allah would have blessed bayo&ibrahim with enough meat and oil.

Blood money..

Cokahot:
Wey u suppose park car very far from atm,buy ski mask,buy shoe filler increase your height,buy baggy balloon jacket,buy black mask, dey go atm
. E nor get how fbi wan catch u. But as a mumu afonja u enter atm with your car,still get mind dey make calls forgetting that usa,na camera country. U go Greet hushpuppy for jail ok. At least 20years sure for u. Hahahahahahaha. Picker has been finally picked. Haha

They just view all the available security cameras on the streets until they trace the point where he removes or get to a street or address where they can pin him to.

When they commit crime abroad they're Nigerians but when they excel abroad they're Americans.


Mtcheew

Look at how they are disgracing Oduduwa

Why are some Nigerians painting our image so bad like this? If not scam, it is drug, why? Na only us waka comot our shores, eh?