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Two Nigerians have been sentenced to 12 years each in a Vietnam prison. They were convicted by a court in the central province of Khanh Hoa, for hacking into emails of local companies to swindle money from their foreign partners.
According to Thanhnien News, Christian Nnadikwe, 34, and Collins Deke, 37, were sentenced alongside a female Vietnamese accomplice, Le Thi Kim Quyen, 35, who got 15 years in prison.
The trio were also found guilty of another fraud scheme, in which they pretended to be British friends of two Vietnamese women on Facebook and asked them to send money as shipping fees to receive gifts.
Another Nigerian suspect and Quyen’s de facto husband, Mark Mamado Abdallah, 39, is still at large.
The group pocketed over VND3.3 billion (US$150,000) between April and August 2013, according to the indictment. Most of this came from the email hacking scheme.
Prosecutors said over the four months, Quyen and 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.
This man, referred to as Chief Brother, 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.