Two men, Jafaar September Nyangoro and Peter Bah Acha, were indicted for orchestrating a $1.6 million phishing scheme against the County of Fresno. They allegedly gained unauthorized control over an email belonging to a nonprofit's finance director, which allowed them to issue fraudulent invoices causing the county to mistakenly transfer funds to Nyangoro's account rather than the intended nonprofit. The scheme occurred over a few weeks in 2020, involving the manipulation of bank account information for these transactions. Nyangoro was arrested, while Acha remains at large.
"Posing as the finance director, they fraudulently represented to the County of Fresno that the nonprofit's bank account information had changed..."
"The County of Fresno initiated several ACH transfers totaling more than $1.6 million to Nyangoro's bank account instead of the nonprofit's account..."
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