Email Fraud Scandal: Two Nigerian Men Sentenced To 12 Years In Prison By A Vietnamese Court

According to reports, two Nigerian men namely; Christian Nnadike, 34, and Collins Deke, 37, has been sentenced by a Vietnamese court 12 years each in a Vietnam prison alongside a Vietnamese female accomplice, Le Thi Kim Quyen, 35, who was sentenced to 15 years and another Nigerian, de facto husband of the lady, Mark Mamado Abdallah, 39, who is currently at large. All were put behind bars for hacking into emails of local companies, contact the company's foreign partners and swindle them of their money.

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 4 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.