A Virginia man is in custody, accused of defrauding a Troup County church out of more than $60,000 in a business email scheme, deputies say.
Samuel Nana Opoku, a resident of Fairfax County, Virginia, is facing charges of money laundering, felony theft by taking, five counts of identity fraud, and initiation of deceptive commercial email.
Investigators say that Opoku was part of a group that impersonated financial advisors and used spoofed email accounts to misdirect tens of thousands of dollars from a local church into business accounts under their control…