Kenyan Man in Custody on conning the US- Government Allegations.
A 41-year old Kenyan man is in custody for allegedly conning the United States government 51 million.
Anthony Mutisya 
The man, is allegedly accused of engaging in a scheme to deceive and defraud the Bernalillo County in New Mexico government in the United States.
The Kenyan man was arraigned in a federal court where he was charged with ten counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy.
According to court and indictment records, the man is accused of that period between October to December 2019, he is accused of engaging allegedly engaging in a scheme to deceive and defraud the government of Bernalillo county, New Mexico.
The man is also believed to be in New York on an immigrant visa.
He was arraigned in a federal court where he was charged with ten counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy.
According to the court documents, Bernalillo County received an email feigning to come from a legitimate vendor CDW Government Inc., which had provided products and services to the county for which payment was due.
The fake email included a complete automated clearinghouse (ACH) form used by Bernalillo County to designate or change automated payments electronically to vendor bank accounts.
The email also included an image of a voided check showing the same routing and account numbers listed on the ACH form. The email indicated a telephone number that was portrayed as a contact number for CDW but belonged to the suspect
“As our technologies and banking systems evolve, so do the strategies of thieves and fraudsters,” said Fred J. Federici, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico.
“For this reason, we continue to encourage heightened vigilance with respect to unsolicited email requests. The responsibility for these crimes’ rests entirely with the perpetrators. However, we can each do our part by taking every precaution, such as scrutinizing email addresses and verifying contact information. We will do our part by prosecuting those who attempt to deceive our citizens and institutions.”
“When governments are victimized by fraud, especially one as large as what Bernalillo County experienced, taxpayers and residents are the ones who can get cheated,” Raul Bujanda, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Albuquerque Field Office, stated.
