#HUSH PUPPY SCAMMER VERIFICATION#
During the closing, a paralegal sent a verification email to a Citizens Bank email address to request wire instructions. A client of the firm was refinancing their property through Citizens Bank. In October of 2019, Abbas and his conspirators targeted a New York law firm that handles the refinance of real estate. The Law Firm That Lost $900,000 to Abbas. Abbas' day job was posing as a trusted employee or customer of an unsuspecting American business, Using spoofed emails sent to a targeted employee of the victim company, Abbas would trick the business into sending large sums of money to a bank account his transnational network of criminal associates controlled.
However, what Abbas presented himself as was very far from the real truth. One of Abbas' social media posts from a little over a month ago said, "Before you say I’m extra and “too much”, ask yourself. To "Hushpuppi's" 2.4 million Instagram followers, he wasn't known as a criminal, but as a successful real estate developer living the high-life of private jets, designer watches & clothes, and fast cars. Abbas is the Nigerian man accused of participating in a massive email scam operation targeting US businesses. (“FBI”), and have been so employed since approximately March 2015.I primarily investigate cyber-enabled fraud and business email compromise (“BEC”) schemes," that's how the FBI's criminal complaint against Ray "Hushpuppi" Abbas begins. "I am a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation
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