Early on Thursday, a report emerged that notorious Fraudster, Ramon Olorunwa Abass alias Hushpuppi committed a $400,000 Fraud
, published on Thursday morning with the headline; “Hushpuppi commits $400k fraud from inside US prison”, appeared on social media. The story was quickly syndicated across several media platforms and social media handles on Twitter and Facebook.“US prosecutors presented documents before the United States District Court of California on Wed 16th March 2022 with fresh evidence indicting HushPuppi of committing fraud and money laundering in U.S Federal correctional facility.
“It was found that Hushpuppi was actively buying EIP debit cards from an underground cyber criminal marketplace called StimulusCard . While being recorded, Hushpuppi bought a total of 58 EIP debit cards with a total value of $429,800 on the site and laundered the money through one AJ.”Speaking to the BBC,Director of Media Relations, United States Attorney’s Office, Central District of California, Mrozek Thom said that the report was FALSE.
“We have checked with the FBI agent who supposedly authored the document, and it was confirmed to be fake”.
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