The FBI is offering a $1,000 reward for information that leads to his arrest. James is 32 years old, 6’0″ tall, and approximately 175 pounds. He is a Nigerian national, has
brown eyes and black hair, and may have a beard. .
Anyone with information as to the whereabouts of James is urged to contact law enforcement immediately. The FBI
can be reached 24 hours a day at (212) 384-1000. He is not considered to be violent in nature.
As alleged in a complaint sworn out of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, James, along
with four other co-conspirators, ran a business e-mail
compromise scheme that resulted victim losses of more than $5 million for their victims. . .As part of scheme, James and his co-conspirators defrauded victims across the U.S. by tricking them into wiring money to bank accounts the victims believed were
owned by family members, friends, or business associates.
They did this in two ways: by overtaking an e-mail
account of an individual trusted by the victim and then
requesting money be wired to a bank account; or by
developing a relationship of trust with victim like an
Internet romance and then asking the victim to wire
money. .
As soon as the money was wired, it would be moved
from one account to another, and the funds would be
withdrawn. James’s role in this scheme was to withdraw
the money from bank accounts. . .
James is known to frequent the Brooklyn neighborhoods
of East New York (Crescent Street and Loring Avenue;
Vermont Street between Blake Avenue and Dumont
Avenue), Brownsville, Bedford-Stuyvesant (MacDougal and
Hull Streets), Crown Heights (Park Place and Utica
Avenue), Flatbush (E 29th and Avenue D), and East
Flatbush (East 51st and Winthrop Street).
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