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The FBI is looking for a Nigerian hacker who stole $ 30 million from New York

The story of a spectacular Internet fraud that also leads to Hong Kong, Jakarta and Lübeck.

An ICU bed in New York, photographed on March 31, 2020: In the first weeks of the corona pandemic, there was a severe shortage of ventilators in the city. A Nigerian hacker exploited him mercilessly.

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On the evening of the great coup, Chidozie Collins writes one last and disturbing e-mail to Obasi. “This delivery is of the utmost importance due to the Covid crisis,” reads the short message sent to New York from a computer in Nigeria on March 31, 2020. “Please transfer the amount as soon as possible.”

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