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Framingham 'Spoofer' Tricks Victims Into Wiring Hundreds Of Thousands: Feds Framingham 'Spoofer' Tricks Victims Into Wiring Hundreds Of Thousands: Feds
Framingham 'Spoofer' Tricks Victims Into Wiring Hundreds Of Thousands: Feds A 27-year-old used a fake business to stash the thousands of dollars he acquired through a criminal email scheme, officials say.  Gustaf Njei, of Framingham, was sentenced to pay almost $95,000 in restitution on top of two years in prison and two years of supervised release on Friday, March 10 for convictions relating to an email-based fraud scheme that netted him hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to US District Court Chief Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV. Njei created a fake business called "Niej Trading" to operate a sophisticated business email compromise (BEC) scheme, the distr…

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