ATLANTA — Two convicted cyber criminals were sentenced to prison this week in Gwinnett County for their role in fraud schemes with multiple victims.
Ugochinyere Anazodo, 46, of Gwinnett and Dominique Beaulieu, 45, of Windermere, Fla., were convicted late last month for participating in several cyber scams including business email compromise, romance fraud, and inheritance and identity theft.
Among the victims was the Georgia Department of Transportation, which was fraudulently induced to pay a legitimate vendor’s invoices to the defendants. In another scheme, a private citizen was conned by a man she believed she could trust, and her money flowed to Anazodo through four separate business bank accounts – all of which had been established using the stolen identities of Georgians.
“We’re working each day to put a stop to the cyber criminals who are targeting Georgians and stealing their hard-earned dollars, and our efforts have proven successful,” said state Attorney General Chris Carr, whose White Collar and Cyber Crime Unit prosecuted the case.