A Nigerian, Daniel
Adekunle Ojo, has been arrested by
the FBI in Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, and charged with
fraud and identity theft offences.
Ojo, who had been in
the US for 14 months, was
arrested after he was linked to a phishing scheme that
used an AOL and Gmail email accounts to target school districts in Connecticut
and Minnesota in an effort to get employees’ personal information and file bogus
tax returns.
Ojo appeared before a
US magistrate judge in Greensboro, N.C., and was ordered detained pending his
transfer to the District of Connecticut.
He was
arrested in his Durham home. Authorities said Ojo entered the US in May 2016 on
a visitor’s visa and failed to leave on his scheduled departure date in June
2016.