Arrested Nigerian con artists all over the world: the single amount to us $ 15.4 million-hackers, cyber crime-IT information

According to Interpol confirmed that the Organization's cooperation with Nigerian officials, captured a suspected fraud committed through thousands of e-mails on a global scale of transnational crime gang leader.

The suspect was 40 year old Nigerian man, known as "Mike", is believed to have suffered hundreds of Internet users in the world at US $ 60 million (about 398 million yuan) in damages. One of them was amount up to $ 15.4 million (approximately RMB 102 million).

Interpol's statement said that transnational criminal groups have at least 40 people, Nigeria, Malaysia and South Africa and other countries use a modus operandi of malware and in Europe and the United States and money laundering .

Their modus operandi included: tampering with the vendor's email, sending false information to buyers, asking them to the gang-controlled bank account money control executives email, uses the mailbox requested financial remittance of employees and so on.

The gang of frauds to Australia, and Canada, and India, and Malaysia, and Romania, and South Africa, and Thailand and the United States and other countries are "action".

尼日利亚诈骗犯坑遍全球终落网：单笔金额达1540万美元 - 黑客,网络犯罪 - IT资讯

据国际刑警组织证实，该组织与尼日利亚官方合作，抓获一名涉嫌在全球范围内利用数千封电子邮件实施诈骗的跨国犯罪团伙头目。

这名嫌犯为40岁的尼日利亚籍男子，人称“迈克”，据信已使全球数百网民蒙受6000万美元（约合3.98亿元人民币）损失。其中一人被骗金额高达1540万美元（约合1.02亿元人民币）。

国际刑警组织的声明说，这一跨国犯罪团伙至少有40人，在尼日利亚、马来西亚和南非等国使用恶意软件作案，并在欧洲和美国等地洗钱。

他们的作案手法包括：篡改供应商的电子邮件，给采购商发去虚假信息，要求其向该团伙控制的银行账户打钱；控制企业高管的电子邮箱，利用该邮箱要求负责财务的雇员电汇款项等。

该团伙的诈骗活动使澳大利亚、加拿大、印度、马来西亚、罗马尼亚、南非、泰国和美国等国的中小企业“中招”。