They committed a series of business email compromises and romance scams against individuals and businesses located across the United States, including in the Southern District of New York. They had an objective to use the business email to compromise fraud schemes which was to trick and deceive businesses into wiring funds into accounts controlled by the Enterprise. These fake email accounts were specifically designed to trick other employees of the company with access to the company’s finances into thinking the fake email accounts were authentic. The fake email accounts were used to send instructions to wire money to certain bank accounts and also included fake authorization letters for the wire transfers that contained forged signatures of company employees. Mensah opened and maintained multiple business bank accounts in the name of an auto sales company to receive funds stolen from victims and launder them to co-conspirators based primarily in Ghana.

Source: GhanaWeb July 03, 2021 03:00 UTC