Nigerian man who conned schools in the United States gets arrested

A Nigerian man has been arrested for tricking school districts across the country into sending him the personal information of thousands of workers and using it to file fraudulent tax returns.

Olukayode Ibrahim Lawal, 35, was indicted Thursday in Connecticut federal court. Lawal, from Nigeria, was in the U.S. on an expired visa, prosecutors said. 

He went to America on Thanksgiving Day 2016, on a visitor’s visa but didn’t leave a week later as he was supposed to. Lawal allegedly committed the crimes a couple of months later, according to an arrest affidavit written by an FBI cybercrime investigator.

About 100 “suspicious” 1040 forms were filed in the names of the school’s employees, including some who were owed refunds, the feds said. Three of the bunk refunds were processed, and $23,000 was dispensed from the IRS. .

IP address records show that somoene at Lawal’s apartment in Smyrna had the sensitive information in email accounts. Another school district was duped and had 103 fake 1040s filed. .

A refund from one of those returns, totaling $4,207, was deposited into an account that had withdrawals in Marietta and Hiram. In another Connecticut district where 122 tax forms were filed in the scheme, Lawal made out with about $37,000 in tax refunds. .

Lawal also targeted school districts in Texas and Oklahoma, along with at least 11 businesses. He faces a maximum of 20 years in prison for his wire fraud charges.

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