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How Hushpuppi's gang member Woodberry chats up FBI agent unknowingly.


In a statement from the US Attorney’s Office in Chicago, Woodberry who was extradited from Dubai, and kept in the FBI custody, arrived in Chicago on the night of Thursday, July 2, and appeared in court in the morning of Friday, July 3, to face a charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

Woodberry chats up FBI agent unknowingly (details). Photo: Instagram Source: UGC Among the companies defrauded by Woodberry is a Chicago-based company that sent wire transfers totaling $15.2 million to him. The US department of justice had it that there were several instances in which one or more unknown subjects gained unauthorized access to a US-based company’s email account and sent messages to unwitting employees claiming to be from the company or known business contact. The fraudulent emails instructed people to wire funds to a bank account set up by “money mules” at Woodberry's instruction, prosecutors say. The complaint alleges Ponle directed the mules to convent the proceeds of the fraud into Bitcoin and send them to a virtual wallet that Ponle owned and operated. Unknown to Woodberry he was talking to an undercover FBI agent of his schemes.

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