The scammers spent almost all of the money on items that included luxury goods at Louis Vuitton and at an Apple Store. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - An elderly man sent about US$5.3 million to multiple accounts over more than a year, after he was told he could claim a purported inheritance of property in Singapore.
In a release on April 25, the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York said that Odabi and his unidentified co-conspirators had allegedly lied to the victim that he needed to send them the money to get a “Certificate of Origination” from the International Monetary Fund . The transfers included US$2 million to accounts in the name of Odabi’s companies Oh-Dabi Properties and American Commodity Exchange.
“Odabi and his co-conspirators callously abused the trust of an elderly victim to line their pockets with millions in stolen cash,” he said.
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