Acting U.S. Attorney Michael M. Simpson has announced that a Nigerian, Daniel Chima Inweregbu, age 40, pled guilty on August 21, 2025, before United States District Judge Nanette Jolivette Brown to a more than $405,000 romance scam.
Between at least July 1, 2017, and December 16, 2018, Inweregbu and his co-conspirators devised and operated a “romance scam” whereby they sought to obtain money and property from multiple American women, including four victims, by means of false and fraudulent representations and promises.
Once the relationship was established, the defendant and his co-conspirators, posing as Larry Pham, requested that victims send them money under various scams and ruses to domestic bank accounts they opened and managed.
Inweregbu faces up to 20 years in prison, up to three years of supervised release, and up to a fine of $250,000 as to Count 1. He faces up to twenty years in prison, up to three years of supervised release, and up to a fine of $500,000 as to Count 12. He also faces payment of a $100 mandatory special assessment fee per count.
