Two convicted of cyber fraud scheme targeting small business, private citizens

ATLANTA – Attorney General Chris Carr has announced that Ugochinyere Anazodo, 46, of Gwinnett County, and Dominique Beaulieu, 45, of Windermere, Fla., have been convicted and sentenced to prison for participating in multiple cyber fraud schemes that saw victims, including small business, government and individuals, lose significant sums of money through scams such as Business Email Compromise, romance and confidence fraud, inheritance, and identity theft.

The Georgia Department of Transportation was fraudulently induced to pay a legitimate vendor’s invoices to the defendants after the vendor fell victim to a BEC scam. 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 Georgia citizens.