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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0LOS ANGELES\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A New York man was sentenced Monday to three years and two months in federal prison for participating in business email scams, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This includes one scam in which $420,000 was stolen from a victim\u2019s life insurance account, then deposited and laundered in various bank accounts set up in the names of other people, according to authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 U.S. District Judge John F. Walter sentenced Sunday Anyika, 56, of Brooklyn, New York, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

The judge also ordered him to pay $1.1 million as restitution. <\/span><\/p>\n

Anyika plead guilty on Jan. 26 to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"white<\/a>At Monday’s hearing, Judge Walter called the BEC scheme \u201cmalicious and extensive\u201d and stated it caused \u201chuge losses to unsuspecting victims.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In January 2018, Anyika\u2019s co-conspirators, using the victim\u2019s life insurance policy number, Social Security number, and date of birth to verify the account, called a business \u2013 identified in court documents as \u201cCompany A\u201d \u2013 to obtain details on a life insurance policy under a victim\u2019s name. <\/span><\/p>\n

Later that month, Anyika, using a fake Liberian passport sent by his co-conspirators that bore his photograph, opened and maintained sole control over a TD Bank account that used the victim\u2019s name.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \"\"<\/a> In February 2018, one of Anyika\u2019s co-conspirators fraudulently and without authorization caused Company A to wire $420,000 from the victim\u2019s life insurance policy account to the same TD Bank account under Anyika\u2019s control. <\/span><\/p>\n

Within weeks, Anyika transferred the ill-gotten funds traceable to the victim\u2019s life insurance account to other bank accounts that he controlled \u2013 including one in Hong Kong \u2013 that were opened using the names of other people.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One of Anyika\u2019s co-conspirators, in March 2018, fraudulently and without authorization, requested cancellation of the victim\u2019s life insurance policy with Company A.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The co-conspirator directed that the remaining funds in the account be wired to the TD Bank account that Anyika had opened two months earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n

The co-conspirator mistakenly ordered the check to be sent to the victim. <\/span><\/p>\n

As a result of the co-conspirator\u2019s fraudulent cancellation request, Company A canceled the victim\u2019s life insurance policy and mailed the victim a check for approximately $761,355 in an envelope addressed to the victim\u2019s office in Bell.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anyika admitted in his plea agreement that his co-conspirators committed other BEC scams, including deceiving a law firm into wiring approximately $400,802 in client settlement money to a bank account under Anyika\u2019s control. <\/span><\/p>\n

\"closeup<\/a>The wire was unable to be recalled and the law firm ended up losing the settlement money.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anyika further admitted to participating in other such scams, including bilking a toy company out of $135,125 when one of his co-conspirators sent the company a series of emails with specific instructions that tricked it into wiring invoice payments to a bank account Anyika controlled. The account had been opened by Anyika using the same fake Liberian passport he used previously.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The co-conspirators further defrauded a construction company and a chemical distributor via fake emails masquerading as a subcontractor and supplier, respectively, that requested payments, according to court documents. <\/span><\/p>\n

The construction company was tricked into wiring approximately $158,113, and the chemical distributor was deceived into sending two payments totaling approximately $117,608 to bank accounts opened and controlled by Anyika.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Anyika admitted to knowing that the funds deposited by his co-conspirators into accounts he controlled were obtained and sent to him as part of the fraudulent conspiracy. <\/span><\/p>\n

As his share of the proceeds of the conspiracy, Anyika personally retained at least approximately $150,000. The co-conspirators remain at large.<\/span><\/p>\n

The FBI investigated this matter.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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