Samuel Marcus held a security clearance at the Defense Logistics Agency and pleaded guilty on July 6, 2026 to laundering millions for the same Nigerian fraud crew that had first pulled him in through a romance scam. The FBI told him what he was doing. He kept doing it.
Laura Frantz of Saluda, South Carolina, was sentenced to federal prison this week for moving money stolen through business email compromise. The FBI says they warned her more than once. She kept the account open anyway.
A federal jury in South Carolina convicted Demani and Tanya Bosket this week in a transnational email-compromise ring that drained more than $25 million from people in the middle of the largest transactions of their lives. The pitch was not a pitch. It was a forwarded thread.
Kelvin Owusu Nkwantabisa got 204 months in a Florida federal court for leading a $38 million email hijacking ring. The mechanism he ran is still sitting inside every accounts-payable inbox in America.
A finance employee nearly sent $100,000 to a fake vendor after a video call with a man who looked and sounded exactly like his boss. The man on the screen was a file. The wire was real.