US jails Nigerian man for $6m inheritance fraud

A Nigerian national, Tochukwu Albert Nnebocha, was sentenced to eight years in prison by a US federal court for defrauding over 400 elderly Americans of more than $6 million through a transnational inheritance scam. The scheme involved sending personalized letters claiming recipients were entitled to multimillion-dollar inheritances from a Spanish bank, then demanding payments for supposed delivery fees and taxes. Nnebocha, 44, was arrested in Poland in April 2025 and extradited to the US, where he pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges. He must pay $6.8 million in restitution and faces three years of supervised release after his prison term. This is the second indictment linked to the fraud network, with eight co-conspirators from the UK, Spain, Portugal and Nigeria already convicted.

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