ABC NEWS: FBI Arrests Dozens in Nigerian Romance Scams Linked to Fake U.S. Military Personnel, Wake up America.

ABC NEWS: FBI Arrests Dozens in Nigerian Romance Scams Linked to Fake U.S. Military Personnel Wake up America. VIDEO ABOVE: Sarasota Private Eye Bill Warner seen on ABC News Tampa exposed the Nigerian Email Scams 8 YEARS AGO AND STILL COUNTING. Wake up, do not send money via wire transfers to anybody you met online the only group that works the money laundering circuit are the Nigerian scammers. An online identity theft scam victimized soldiers based at Fort Hood, Texas, investigators said. The scam came to a quick end with the arrests of a gang of Nigerian immigrants. 

Nigerian Internet Scammers will send you counterfeit cashier checks that eventually bounce and make you liable. They will request you deposit a counterfeit cashier check for say $70,000 claiming they can't at their bank for some BS reason, then tell you to keep $5,000 for your trouble and wire them the difference $65,000, all fake and your on the hook for the whole $70,00 when the check is found to be counterfeit and bounces.

ROMANCE SCAMS: ABC NEWS: August 22, 2019 FBI takes down Nigerian fraudsters in $46M case. The relationship between a Japanese woman and a U.S. Army captain stationed in Syria started online, through an international social network for digital pen pals. It grew into an internet romance over 10 months of daily emails. It ended with the woman $200,000 poorer and on the verge of bankruptcy after borrowing money from her sister, ex-husband and friends to help Capt. Terry Garcia with his plan to smuggle diamonds out of Syria.

In reality, there were no diamonds and there was no Garcia — they were part of an elaborate scam hatched by an international ring of cyber thieves operating mainly out of Los Angeles and Nigeria. Eighty people face federal charges for their participation in a "massive" Los Angeles-based email fraud and money laundering network that defrauded victims out of millions of dollars, the United States Attorney’s Office in California said Thursday. The group used romance scams, schemes targeting the elderly and business email compromise scams to defraud their victims, according to a 252-count federal grand jury indictment. Some victims lost hundreds of thousands of dollars to the schemes, and many of them were elderly, according to federal officials.

Romance Scams: Authorities say 14 people were arrested across the U.S. Thursday, including 11 in Los Angeles. Two people connected to the scheme were already in custody on different charges, and another was arrested earlier this week.

The lead defendants, Valentine Iro, 31, of Carson, and Chukwudi Christogunus Igbokwe, 38, of Gardena, both Nigerian citizens, set up bank and money-service accounts that received funds obtained fraudulently by co-conspirators around the globe, according to a news release. “Billions of dollars are lost annually, and we urge citizens to be aware of these sophisticated financial schemes to protect themselves or their businesses from becoming unsuspecting victims," said Paul Delacourt of the FBI’s Los Angeles office.

 U.S. Army CID Online Romance Scam Information. If you feel you have been scammed by a person claiming to be a U.S. Soldier, contact the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center and the Federal Trade Commission. Army CID is warning anyone who is involved in online dating to proceed with caution when corresponding with persons claiming to be U.S. Soldiers currently serving in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria or elsewhere. 

Army CID receives hundreds of allegations a month from victims who state they got involved in an online relationship with someone, on a legitimate dating website or other social media website, who claims to be a U.S. Soldier. The "Soldier" then begins asking for money for various FALSE, service-related needs such as transportation costs, communication fees, marriage, processing and medical fees. Victims of these online scams have lost tens of thousands of dollars, with a very low possibility of recovery.


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CRIME STOPPERS Tampa Fl Offers $3,000 Reward For Info On Whereabouts of On the Run Child Sex Predator Enrique Soto.

CRIME STOPPERS Tampa Fl Offers $3,000 Reward For Info On Whereabouts of On the Run Child Sex Predator Enrique Soto. Crime Stoppers of Tampa Bay is offering a reward of up to $3,000 for information that leads to the location and arrest of Enrique Soto for these outstanding warrants, Failure to Comply w/Sex Offender Registration, VOCC/VOP Attempt Sexual Battery and Lewd & Lascivious Acts on a Child. Anyone with any information regarding this fugitive and who wants to be eligible for a cash reward is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-873-TIPS (8477), report anonymously online at www.crimestopperstb.com or send a mobile tip using the P3 Tips Mobile application. Crime Stoppers must be contacted first in order to be eligible for a cash reward.  

News Releases are to be used for informational purposes only. Information provided should not be relied upon for any type of legal action.
Release Number: 09-160		For Immediate Release
Public Information Office		June 8, 2009
Debbie Carter: dcarter@hcso.tampa.fl.us		(813) 247-8060
	SEXUAL PREDATOR UPDATE: ABSCONDED: Enrique Soto, 07/16/52

In 1995, Enrique Soto pleaded guilty to attempted sexual battery and lewd act upon a child. The trial court sentenced him to fifteen years in prison, but provided that after Soto served two years, the remaining thirteen years would be suspended and Soto placed on probation. Among the special conditions of probation, Soto was ordered to have no contact with any child less than sixteen years of age until he completed a sex offender program, and thereafter to have no contact with any child under sixteen without another responsible adult present. The court also noted that Soto could transfer his probation to California. On June 10, 1996, Soto was released from prison, and although he was homeless, he possessed an airline ticket to California that had been purchased by his family. The probation officer attempted to make arrangements for Soto to transfer the probation to California where he was to live with a brother, Moysis Soto. In a telephone conversation, Moysis Soto told the probation officer that there were no children in his home. The probation officer initiated a home investigation by the California authorities, but because the investigation would take some time, he gave Soto a thirty-day travel permit with the understanding that if the California authorities did not approve the probation plan, he would have to return to Florida. Enrique Soto left for California on June 19, 1996. The probation officer called Moysis Soto on June 20, 1996, and learned that Enrique was not living with him. Moysis informed the probation officer that he did have small children in his home, but he had previously lied to help Enrique get the travel permit, and that Enrique knew about the lie. Enrique called the probation officer to inform him that he was living in a trailer because when he arrived at his brother's house, he found his niece's children living there, and he knew he would violate the probation if he stayed with them. On July 9, 1996, the probation officer told Soto that the California authorities had rejected the residential plan and that he would have to return to Florida immediately. On July 23, 1996, Soto asked the probation officer to give him more time because he did not have the funds to return. This request was denied. Soto was charged with violating his probation and extradited from California. The trial court determined that Soto had violated probation as charged by (1) moving from the approved residence of his brother, without permission, and (2) lying to the probation officer by telling him that no children lived with his brother. The only evidence that Soto lied about the children consists of the probation officer's testimony. As noted above, he testified that Moysis Soto admitted lying about the children and said that Enrique knew the children lived there. Enrique Soto testified, however, that he did not know until he arrived in California that his niece's children were staying with his brother. Although hearsay testimony is admissible in a probation revocation hearing, it is insufficient standing alone to establish a violation of a condition of probation. Because the trial court could not properly revoke Soto's probation based solely on the probation officer's testimony, we conclude that the evidence was insufficient to support the finding that Enrique Soto lied about the children living in his brother's home. Enrique Soto was returned to Florida and eventually committed to the Florida State Prison system on 05/02/1997 for tow years., see below.
Aliases: ENRIQUE PINTOR, ENRIQUE SOTO 
Florida Prison Incarceration History Enrique Soto DOB 7/15/1962:
Date In-Custody ..Date Out-Custody
06/29/1995 ........06/10/1996
05/02/1997 ........03/29/1999

WORST OF THE WORST: Florida's Most Wanted Sexual Predator is Enrique Soto Who Links to Wimauma in Hillsborough County and Manatee County Fl. I first profiled this dirtbag Enrique Soto back on 8/06/2015 when I found links to him in Sarasota County and Manatee County, see link to story http://www.billwarnerpi.com/2015/08/bolo-floridas-most-wanted-sexual.html . Please contact FDLE Sex Offenders hot line 1-888-357-7332 if you know where Enrique Soto is! In 1998 Sexual Predator Enrique Soto, DOB 7/15/1962, was listed at an address on Nocturne Rd in Venice, Sarasota County Fl. Enrique Soto works as a cook, he is a Hispanic male. Child rapist Enrique Soto is 5`9" tall and weighing 185 lbs, black hair, brown eyes. Enrique Soto is linked to his family's village in Mexico. Enrique Soto is registered as a Sexual Predator pursuant to Section 775.21 F.S

My original post, Thursday, August 06, 2015 BOLO: Florida's Most Wanted Sexual Predator is Fugitive Enrique Soto Age 54 Out of Wimauma FL Hillsborough County. CHILD RAPIST ENRIQUE SOTO AGE 54 WIMAUMA FL: Take about a 15 min ride on Rte 301 northeast of the north Manatee County Fl line and you will end up in probably the most violent little town in all of Southwest Fl. Welcome to Gangland in Mexican SUR-13 Controlled Wimauma Fl. In what has to be the most disgusting crime ridden little town Wimauma Fl is a place you do not want to venture out day or night without a heavily armed SWAT team. Gang members, drive by shootings, people left for dead in the streets, sex offenders, child rapist predators like Enrique Soto, felony animal abuse, and even horse thieves, these are day in and day out events in Wimauma.


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Hanan Ashrawi's Miftah Group Planned Rep Tlaib Israel Trip Refers to Palestinian PFLP Suicide Bombers as Sacrifice 'For The Cause', Tampa's Osama Mustafa Senior Member PFLP

Hanan Ashrawi's Miftah Group Planned Rep Tlaib Israel Trip Refers to Palestinian PFLP Suicide Bombers as Sacrifice 'For The Cause', Tampa's Osama Mustafa Senior Member PFLP. Hanan Ashrawi is a senior official of an organization that includes in its ranks those who are on the U.S. government list of terrorist groups. If that’s not sufficient grounds to deny her a visa to America, then what is? Hanan Ashrawi is a member of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The PLO consists of groups that practice terrorism though are not on the U.S. list (for political reasons), such as Fatah; and groups that practice terrorism and are on the U.S. list, such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Founded in 1967, the PFLP is a Marxist gang that has carried out numerous terrorist attacks. It was a pioneer of airplane hijackings in the 1970s. The PFLP’s bloody rap sheet also includes the murder of an Israeli cabinet minister and the butchering of American rabbis (and an Israeli Druze policeman) in a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood. It’s no surprise that Ashrawi is comfortable helping run an organization that includes the PFLP. After all, she has on many occasions publicly endorsed terrorism.

Group Behind Trip to West Bank for Rep Rashida Tlaib & Rep Omar Direct Ties to Terrorists at Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Ramallah. Miftah group that planned Tlaib-Omar Israel trip once referred to Palestinian suicide bombing as sacrifice 'for the cause'. "The organization that is funding their trip is Miftah, which is an avid supporter of BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement), and among whose members, Hanan Ashrawi, are those who have expressed support for terrorism against Israel." 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement. Netanyahu cited Miftah as he alleged the lawmakers had ulterior, anti-Israel motives in their planned Israel trip. For instance, a 2006 Miftah report dealing with the Second Intifada – a wave of Palestinian violence in the early 2000s – discussed a 2002 Jerusalem suicide bombing under a section titled “Fighting Back.” It described the attack, where Wafa Idrees blew herself up with a bomb that killed an Israeli and injured more than 100 others, as “the beginning of a string of Palestinian women dedicated to sacrificing their lives for the cause.” More recently, Miftah’s founder, Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s executive committee and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), spoke against referring to Palestinian attackers as terrorists in a 2017 interview.  

Tampa's on the run fugitive Osama Sam Mustafa is now a senior member of the PFLP in Ramallah, small world, eh? According to the itinerary released by Israel’s public broadcaster Kan, the congresswomen were scheduled to meet with people, Hanan Ashrawi, from Palestinian groups Miftah, who was also sponsoring the trip, and the Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCI-P) which is funded by the Terrorists at Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in Ramallah West Bank. DCI-P general assembly president Nasser Ibrahim, a former editor of the PFLP’s weekly publication, can be seen in a 2015 video claiming Palestinians have a “right of resistance,” including the right to “raise the gun.” He also co-wrote The Palestinian Intifada: Cry Freedom, a 2002 book in which he said, “Every checkpoint, every soldier and every settler are legitimate targets in the struggle for freedom... everything becomes a target. 

Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCI-P) is a Ramallah-based NGO meant to promote Palestinian children’s rights, and tries to convince foreign governments and UN bodies that Israel is systematically abusing Palestinian children. Many of its officials and board members are linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), designated as a terrorist organization in the US, EU, Canada and Israel. The PFLP is responsible for hijacking an Air France plane to Uganda in 1976, which led to the famous IDF raid on Entebbe; attacking a preschool on Kibbutz Misgav Am in 1980, killing two-and-a-half-year-old Eyal Gluska; and for massacring Jewish worshipers in a Jerusalem synagogue in 2014, among many, many, many other terrorist attacks. DCI-P employee Hashem Abu Maria was hailed as a leader of the PFLP, after he was killed by the IDF in a violent confrontation in Beit Umar in July 2014. DCI-P director Rifat Odeh Kassis spoke at Abu Maria’s memorial service, surrounded by PFLP flags and posters. 

JEWISH NEWS SYNDICATE WRITES: The Palestinian groups that were part of Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) canceled trip to Israel and the West Bank have a public record of openly expressing anti-Semitism, supporting the BDS movement, as well as fostering sympathy of and links to the terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (Tampa's Osama Sam Mustafa is now a senior member in Ramallah), According to the itinerary released by Israel’s public broadcaster Kan, the congresswomen were scheduled to meet with people, Hanan Ashrawi, from Palestinian groups Miftah, who was also sponsoring the trip, and the Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCI-P). “While we do not support policies that would block these U.S. lawmakers from entering, we note how they exploit their standing to partner with groups such as Miftah that promote anti-Jewish hate and advocate against peace and coexistence, as well as at least one NGO linked to the PFLP terror group, the so-called Defense for Children International-Palestine,” NGO Monitor told JNS. In his statement on Israel’s decision to bar the congresswomen, Netanyahu also noted the Palestinian group’s support for BDS and ties with terrorism. 

Miftah’s website also praises Wafa Idress, a PFLP female suicide-bomber who killed an 81-year-old Israeli and wounded 150 others in January 2002 as part of the PFLP “resistance movement.” Similarly problematic, DCI-P, which is the Palestinian branch of the Geneva-based that says its mission is to “promote and protect the rights of Palestinian children,” has ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which has been designated as a terror group by the United States, European Union, Canada and Israel. According to NGO Monitor, several past and present board members and employees of the group have ties to PFLP. Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum, told JNS the he views the Palestinian groups as more extreme than Omar and Tlaib. “The groups associated with the planned Omar-Tlaib visit to ‘Palestine’, the terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), are perhaps even more extreme than these two members of Congress in their hatred of Jews and Israel. This fact points to the effort needed either to educate the duo, discredit them or work against their re-election.”

Rockefeller Bros Fund gives to Defense for Children International-Palestine group that funds Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Terrorists 'Pay to Slay' and Osama Sam Mustafa. Just like Osama bin-Laden and al-Qaeda had multiple false front groups funding their terrorist activities. Donations were once the largest source of terrorist funding, coming mostly from charities and wealthy individuals. For years, individuals and charities based in Saudi Arabia were the most important source of funds for al-Qaeda. TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump should cut off U.S. funding to the Palestinian Authority over its policy of paying millions of dollars in reward money to terrorists and their families. Since the 1990s, as the U.S. and other countries have sent billions of dollars in aid to the Palestinians, Palestinian leaders have paid hundreds of millions of dollars in rewards to those who carry out bombings, stabbings and other attacks in Israel. These payments, codified in Palestinian law, are an official incentive program for murder that in any other context would be recognized as state sponsorship of terror. But the U.S. and other Western states have looked the other way while continuing to send aid, giving Palestinian leaders no incentive to stop. 

NY Post writes, Israel’s interior minister on Friday said he has granted Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s request to visit her family in the occupied West Bank on humanitarian grounds — a day after she and her colleague Rep. Ilhan Omar were barred from entering the country. Tlaib, D-Mich., who is of Palestinian origin, asked to visit her grandmother in the Ramallah West Bank area, (home of PFLP terrorists) Minister Aryeh Deri said in a statement. “I would like to request admittance to Israel in order to visit my relatives, and specifically my grandmother, who is in her 90s and lives in Beit Ur al-Fauqa,” Tlaib wrote in her letter to Deri, according to the Jerusalem Post. Beit Ur al-Fauqa is a Palestinian village located in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the northern West Bank, 5 miles west of Ramallah and 2 miles southeast of Beit Ur al-Tahta. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a population of 864 in the 2007 census.

Palestinian Terror Groups: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Ramallah West Bank. Combining Arab nationalism with Marxist-Leninist ideology, the PFLP saw the destruction of Israel as integral to its struggle to remove Western capitalism from the Middle East. The PFLP advocates armed insurrection and perpetrates media-oriented attacks, particularly the hijacking of planes, to bring the Palestinian cause to public attention. The PFLP hijacked Israeli aircraft in 1968. It abducted and threatened four American journalists in Beirut in 1981 (two from the New York Times, one from the Washington Post and one from Newsweek). PFLP members have continued to perpetrate terrorist acts through the years. In May 2000, George Habash resigned as general secretary because of failing health and was replaced by Abu Ali Mustafa. Mustafa directed the organization to perpetrate terrorist attacks against Israel. He was killed in a targeted attack on August 21, 2001, in Ramallah.

BBC News writes. Considered a moderate within the PFLP group, Abu Ali Mustafa succeeded the ailing Habash in 2000. However, he was killed the following year when an Israeli military helicopter fired rockets at the PFLP's office in Ramallah - a sign, said some analysts, of how Israel saw the PFLP as a continuing force. Indeed, the group struck back by shooting dead Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi, leader of a right-wing party, in Jerusalem. The PFLP's military wing, renamed the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, continues launching attacks on Israeli targets.

Palestinians Osama Mustafa, Khaldoun Khawaja, and Muawia Abdeljalil stole $17 million in Tampa IRS tax fraud scheme and funneled cash to PFLP terrorist group in Ramallah. None of the $17.8 million that Osama Mustafa, Khaldoun Khawaja, and Muawia Abdeljalil stole with their IRS check fraud scheme in Tampa Fl was ever recovered by the FBI. Osama Mustafa, Khaldoun Khawaja, and Muawia Abdeljalilare are all now residing in the West Bank. Khaldoun Khawaja, and Muawia Abdeljalil were both deported after their time served in Federal Prison for their convictions in the $17.8 million in a IRS tax fraud scheme. Osama Sam Mustafa was sentenced to 20 years in prison but fled while out on bail before his sentencing. Osama Sam Mustafa is now in Ramallah West Bank and a high ranking member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) that is headquartered in Ramallah West Bank. 

Tampa's Khaldoun Khalil Khawaja was originally from the village of Ni’lin a Palestinian town in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the central West Bank, located 17 kilometers (11 mi) west of Ramallah. Wanted fugitive Osama Sam Mustafa is in Ramallah where he has relatives, Khaldoun Khalil Khawaja is in the village of Ni’lin West Bank.

Tampa's on the run Osama Sam Mustafa is a long time member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) headquartered in Ramallah West Bank and Gaza with continued terrorist attacks on Israel. Osama Mustafa told a Tampa Tribune reporter in 2005 that his family lived in Ramallah a Palestinian city on the West Bank. Tampa's Osama Sam Mustafa is a senior member of terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in Ramallah West Bank. 

Tampa’s Osama Sam Mustafa, Member of Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) a terrorist organization, has been getting away with it since 1991 after he told a police officer that the US needed another Pan AM 103 bombing attack that happened on December 21st 1988 and that he could be the one to carry out the attack. Thirty-five of the passengers were students from Syracuse University returning home for Christmas following a semester studying in London at Syracuse’s London campus. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has a long history of hijacking passenger aircraft. The PFLP gained notoriety for a series of armed attacks and aircraft hijackings, including on non-Israeli targets. PFLP is described as a terrorist organization by the United States, Canada, and the European Union. 

Wanted by US Marshals Tampa Fugitive Osama Mahmud “Sam” Mustafa On The Run With Stolen IRS $17.8 Million. Sam Mustafa stole $17.78 Mill from the Federal government with his IRS phony tax scam in Tampa in 2012, the Fed’s have been unable to find any of the $17.8 Million Sam Mustafa stole from the IRS, the cash went to support of terrorism. Sam Mustafa fled and is now a wanted fugitive by US Marshals Service. The Tampa TV media seems unaware or just clueless on how big a fish Sam Mustafa is in the world of terrorism.  

Terrorist Osama Mahmud “Sam” Mustafa is a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) located in Ramallah West Bank. On June 25th, 2014 in U.S. District Court, Osama Mahmud Mustafa, DOB 02/10/1963, was sentenced in absentia to 240 months of federal incarceration. In addition, $17.7 million in assets were ordered forfeited from the defendant. Mustafa removed his monitoring bracelet and fled law enforcement following his conviction and while awaiting sentencing, and his bail bond has been forfeited. Authorities, US Marshals, declared Mustafa a wanted fugitive in August 2013.  



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