HUSHPUPPI SCAM

Episode Transcript

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Yeah, this is life inside PRIsYou want the real deal, homemide.
This is what you miss when thesale lies. Get your mind right and
thinks straight. You know the perspectivesto see os in the inmates. This
is life now. Just want tosurvive now when the lights out, keep
quite better. Right down if you'reready, forward, less giddy, you
want to know the truth, takea pisy life inside prison. Today we're

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gonna be talking about the hush Puppyprison scam. Ramon Alurna Abbas known as
Hushpuppy, was SEVENCE to eleven yearsin federal prison in the United States for
money laundering and fraud. However,this did not mark the end of his
criminal activities. While incarcerated, Hushpuppymanaged to continue his fraudulent activities using prison
computers and Internet access to scam individualsand organizations. Lit's led to an additional

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investigation in charges. Hushpuppy, aprolific international fraud had built a reputation for
his extravagant lifestyle funded by his onlinescams. His Instagram account, which boasted
a luxury cars and private jets.It's a testament to his ill gotten wealth.
Despite his arrest and imprisonment, hecontinued to leverage his notoriety to conduct
business, email compromise scams, onlinebank heists, and cyber enable frauds.

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The prison scam involved Hushpuppy and hisassociates targeting a variety of victims, including
a New York law firm, atforeign bank, and a British professional soccer
club. In one instance, theyfraudulently induced the law firm to wired nine
hundred thousand dollars meant for a client'sreal estate refinancing to a bank coount.
They control. The audacity of theactions and the ease with which he was

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able to continue his criminal activities shockedmany. The case also highlighted the global
nature cyber fraud in to the challengeslaw enforcement have to face. Hushpuppy victims
were spread across the world, andthe money hilano was used to fund a
lavish lifestyle, potentially even to assistthe North Korean regime. The Hushpuppy prison
scam serves as a starker of theever evolving nature of cyber fraud and as

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well as the vulnerability of prisons