seanwilliam:
lol, u are wicked

rasheedatt:
In life one can never be too careful

DuBLINGreenb:


I am not justifying fraud, Hushpuppi did wrong by not stopping on time, by not diversifying or doing something else, he got greedy and comfortable with what he was doing it had worked too many times so he always assumed it would work forever big mistake on his part.

Who told you those guys doing legit work, if they knew how to scan they wouldn't be into fraud already? Who told you if they got into public office they won't loot funds.

The reason they remain in scam is that they get too comfortable, they see it as the only way out they have probably tried and failed at many things and the one thing they succeeded at they decide to stick to it SIMPLE

light099:
There's always an irresistible urge to flaunt and misbehave; inherent of sudden wealth, especially when it's stolen.
When your wealth builds gradually and it's moderately proportional to your effort, there won't be any reason to brag or misbehave. But if you start getting sudden huge incomes, far more than your age, especially when you didn't deserve it or sweat for it. The feeling is always overwhelming and there is likelihood of you misbehaving. That's the reason why scammers flaunt their wealth. The urge is irresistible, except for the wise ones who control their emotions and learn to lie low.
During the course of flaunting, especially persistent flaunting, they expose themselves and leave behind trails of their criminal activities.

Do you still remember Dan Owolo of Covenant University?
I mean this shiit always repeat itself over and over and over. Perhaps a regular staff who earned around N100k.
Suddenly, he started getting over N10m with no extra effort. Why didn't he lie low? The feeling and urge is always overwhelmingly. It's extremely euphoric, you only come back to your senses after casting yourself.

If you've always had under N100k in your account, but suddenly you hit a mysterious 'jackpot' of N1m this evening. I can assure you that later in the evening when you come to NL to post or comment, the anatomy of your post would be quiet different. You suddenly start talking like a god. There is a sudden shoot in your hormones, it's a high, it's overwhelmingly. Only people with self-control can handle it.
Ironically, the thrill is even multiplied when you got the 'jackpot' in a dirty-smart way. You feel like James Bond.

Another reason is, scammers in the days when they were still small scammers or when they were still legit, they freely drop their details, because at that time, no one is really tracking their asses. Later when they become big scammers, they forget to erase all their trails they left years ago. It might even be impossible to remember everywhere you've dropped your trails.
Take Invictus for example. When he was still a small legit guy on NL, he dropped his email freely here. Later in life, he became something else and used same email for his fraudulent activities.
This shiit happens to everyone on Social Media. Most Social Media users have trails online.
That poor legit boy dropping his number/email freely on Social Media today, because no one is after him yet, might still use the same email to cast himself years to come.

rasheedatt:
In life one can never be too careful

naptu2:
This is a Nairaland post/thread from July 30th, 2017.




www.nairaland.com/attachments/5739303_hush_jpeg7f5edc56c49cf2be33876da834479735

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https://www.nairaland.com/3956741/exposed-hushpuppi-also-jane-woodscrane

DuBLINGreenb:


I am not justifying fraud, Hushpuppi did wrong by not stopping on time, by not diversifying or doing something else, he got greedy and comfortable with what he was doing it had worked too many times so he always assumed it would work forever big mistake on his part.

Who told you those guys doing legit work, if they knew how to scan they wouldn't be into fraud already? Who told you if they got into public office they won't loot funds.

The reason they remain in scam is that they get too comfortable, they see it as the only way out they have probably tried and failed at many things and the one thing they succeeded at they decide to stick to it SIMPLE

adisababa1234:

You should have just paraphrase that u don't justify long term fraud.
One of like of Hushpuppy
Is this how u will teach your children?
Ur child wl be like, Daddy,when I grow up I'll like to be like Hushpuppy but I wouldn't end up like him coz I wouldn't stay too long in defrauding people
Eno go better for anyone justifying fraudulent act.

Crispels:


I'm ashamed! So to you now, Hush Puppi is only wrong because he scammed for too long and not because he even scammed just one person? Even if it's just one person, what is wrong, is wrong! You people should stop normalizing or justifying what is wrong.
Here in the US, doing BEC or credit card fraud is not rocket science but most of us still choose to stay away from crime because it's evil to ruin the lives of others to ”better” yours. Life does not work that way. Like I said earlier, my cousin that currently lives in Dubai worked as a cleaner for almost a year before getting a job with one of the Dubai Future IT Tech firms there. Can he hack? Yes! He has higher degrees in Computer Engineering & Cybersecurity from schools in Seattle. He left the US for Dubai because he could not get a good company to file for his green card -partly because he is a Nigerian and IT companies don't really trust Nigerians with their cyberinfrastructure again because of those yahoo yahoo idiots who will die miserable deaths and their greedy enablers who think defrauding even one person is right.

The fact that some people are looting or defrauding people does not make it right. See, when I first arrived in the US - I worked a small job that paid only $9 per hour to survive. That could barely even feed me very well - I skipped meals and stuff but I was contented. There are Nigerians who are currently in US feds prisons who after arriving here got jobs that pay $40 per hour(they came on visa lottery). Yet, they were not contented or patient - they went into credit card fraud because they wanted to quickly buy Benz, wear expensive stuff, build houses in Nigeria and live like Hush Puppi. Now, they are in prisons - their green cards may be revoked and they will be deported back to Nigeria with nothing after serving over 10years in feds prisons.

See, crime does not pay. I will rather work as a toilet cleaner, drink my Garri and sleep with my two eyes closed than to go into crime and end up being used as a poster boy by the FBI. I'm a true Yoruba boy and in my family ”a good name is better than ill-gotten riches”.
I buy what I can afford. I wear what I have. I LIVE WITHIN MY MEANS! I’M PATIENT!!!

adisababa1234:


You should have just paraphrase that u don't justify long term fraud.
One of like of Hushpuppy
Is this how u will teach your children?
Ur child wl be like, Daddy,when I grow up I'll like to be like Hushpuppy but I wouldn't end up like him coz I wouldn't stay too long in defrauding people
Eno go better for anyone justifying fraudulent act.

CodeTemplar:

And which town is that? Onitsha or
Enugu?

Crispels:

Lol.
Most of you don't even know how the FBI works. This guy won't meet a dime after serving his term. They will seize and confiscate all the assets belonging to him and his associates in every corner of the world. Unless he buried money in underground cells - which I doubt he did. FBI Investigations like this take years and they are always thorough.

madjune:


Who told you that?

20yrs is half its term in the penal lexicon.

Vaselinelord:
even me that am not a fraudsters i can hide money wey fbi no go see imagine Liquidating your assets to btc not even cia can retrieve that

https://dailypost.ng/2020/07/06/hushpuppi-15-3m-stolen-by-woodberry-from-us-companies-may-not-be-recovered-fbi-hints/

membranus:

Please can you expantiate on this?

I will like to know about the intricacies of his criminal acts, just for curiosity sake.

einsteine:


If you hide your assets, you get full term plus associated charges (including obstruction of justice). A possible ten year sentence becomes forty. That's how the FBI elicits maximum cooperation from suspects.

Vaselinelord:
is 30yrs the sentence of justice obstruction?

einsteine:


According to the affidavit, a non Nigerian hacker who hacked into a US law firm (real estate law firm) substituted the account for the payment of a sales transaction with an account supplied by Hushpuppi. He also had bank accounts opened in Romania, Dubai and the UK for use by BEC scammers. He also made the mistake of using the same email he opened his Instagram with (rayhushpuppi@gmail.com) to coordinate activities with his fellow conspirators.

Vaselinelord:
even me that am not a fraudsters i can hide money wey fbi no go see imagine Liquidating your assets to btc not even cia can retrieve that

https://dailypost.ng/2020/07/06/hushpuppi-15-3m-stolen-by-woodberry-from-us-companies-may-not-be-recovered-fbi-hints/

Crispels:


Lol. Many of you people don’t even follow tech news.

Google Ross Albricht. He had over 20million BTC at the time of the arrest. FBI, DEA and Secret Service recovered it all.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/10/25/fbi-says-its-seized-20-million-in-bitcoins-from-ross-ulbricht-alleged-owner-of-silk-road/amp/


There are way more notorious hackers whose bitcoin wallets have been intruded by the FBI.
You think you can use American platforms to defraud Americans and the FBI won’t retrieve every dime from you? Do some research Ogbeni.

Vaselinelord:
pla don't quote me if you don't know how blockchain works

Crispels:


Don’t also make spurious claims if you don’t know how American federal agencies conduct investigations into cybercrime. Blockchain or cryptocurrency can never be used as a bulwark against FBI investigators. The only ways the FBI may find it more difficult to retrieve stolen funds is if you are based in China or Russia and you make use of some government-censored platforms. Do you even know how blockchain came into use? The same FBI agents that usually hack into iPhones that even Apple claims it cannot unlock as the producer?

Let Hush Puppi and his gang own 1 trillion bitcoin wallets, the FBI will crack into each and everyone of them like a hot knife going through butter. They only need just one transaction ID or an email linked to Hush Puppi or whatever and they will access everything from the day they could only afford to purchase bottled water online. These are some of the things we study in Cybersecurity.