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The FBI is
offering rewards for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction
of Romanian fugitive Nicolae Popescu, the leader of an international
organized crime syndicate that ran a multi-million-dollar cyber fraud scheme,
and Dumitru Daniel Bosogioiu, another Romanian
fugitive charged with participating in the scheme.
The defendants are charged with participating in a long-term conspiracy to saturate Internet marketplace websites, including eBay, Cars.com, AutoTrader.com, and CycleTrader.com, with detailed advertisements for cars, motorcycles, boats, and other high-value items – generally priced in the $10,000 to $45,000 range – that did not actually exist.
Up to $1 million is being offered for information on Popescu and up to $750,000 for information on Bosogioiu.
Interpol has previously issued Red Notices to foreign law enforcement partners seeking assistance in the apprehension of these fugitives, and the FBI has also released wanted posters to facilitate their arrests.
FBI also announced the addition of Nicolae Popescu to the FBI’s Most Wanted Cyber Fugitive List.
The defendants are charged with participating in a long-term conspiracy to saturate Internet marketplace websites, including eBay, Cars.com, AutoTrader.com, and CycleTrader.com, with detailed advertisements for cars, motorcycles, boats, and other high-value items – generally priced in the $10,000 to $45,000 range – that did not actually exist.
Up to $1 million is being offered for information on Popescu and up to $750,000 for information on Bosogioiu.
Interpol has previously issued Red Notices to foreign law enforcement partners seeking assistance in the apprehension of these fugitives, and the FBI has also released wanted posters to facilitate their arrests.
FBI also announced the addition of Nicolae Popescu to the FBI’s Most Wanted Cyber Fugitive List.
Dumitru Daniel Bosogioiu is wanted for his alleged
participation in a sophisticated Internet Fraud scheme where criminal
enterprise conspirators, based in Romania and elsewhere in Europe, posted
advertisements on Internet auction market sites for merchandise for sale. Such
advertisements contained images and descriptions of vehicles and other items
for sale, but those items did not really exist.
Conspirators posing as sellers then negotiated via
e-mail with unsuspecting buyers in the United States. These "sellers"
sent fraudulent invoices that appeared to be from legitimate online payment
services, to the victim buyers, with instructions for payment to bank accounts
held by other conspirators in the United States.
These conspirators opened United States bank
accounts under false identities using fraudulent passports made in Europe by
other conspirators.
When victims wired money to an account identified
on the false invoices, the conspirator associated with that account would be
notified and then would withdraw the proceeds and send them via wire transfer
to another conspirator based on e-mailed instructions.
A federal arrest warrant was issued for Dumitru
Daniel Bosogioiu on December 20, 2012, in the United States District Court,
Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, New York, after he was charged by
indictment for Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, Money Laundering, Passport
Fraud, and Trafficking in Counterfeit Service Marks; Wire Fraud; and Money
Laundering.
If you have any information concerning this case,
and you are outside the United States, please contact the nearest American Embassy
or Consulate. Inside the United States, please contact your local FBI office or the FBI's
Toll Free Tipline at 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324). You may also submit a tip
online at: tips.fbi.gov.
Nicolae Popescu is also wanted for his alleged
participation in this scheme.
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