The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation dedicates
entire task forces to combating the rampant cyber fraud increasing in the U.S.
yearly. Some of their most wanted online fraud criminals are listed below.
9 Wanted Cyber
Fraud Criminals
Viet Quoc Nguyen is
a Vietnamese hacker wanted for hacking into a documented eight email service
providers (ESPs). Quoc Nguyen stole confidential information such as trade
reports and other data, including over a billion email addresses, from 2009 to
2012. He used the stolen addresses to spam victims’ email accounts. The FBI
also suspects Quoc Nguyen of illegal increasing traffic to websites to increase
their sales.
2. Amin Shokohi
The FBI added
Iranian Amin Shokohi to their list for his participation in the ITSecTeam, an
Iran-based information tech company, between 2011-2013. He helped design the
malware, attack scripts, and botnet used in the distributed denial of service
invasions of U.S. financial organizations and companies.
Hamid Firoozi also
worked with the ITSecTeam in Iran on the U.S. DDoS attacks. The FBI also
accuses him of the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition system hack at the
Bowman Avenue Dam in 2013.
4. Gu
Chunhui
Gu Chunhui worked
with the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) based in the People’s Republic of China
to hack the computer systems of six U.S. companies with properties or
businesses within China. The PLA attempted to influence these interests with
the hacks. CA Pennsylvania District Court indicted Chunhui and others of cyber fraud crimes on May 1, 2014.
5. Huang Zhenyu
Huang Zhenyu is
another Chinese PLA member wanted by the FBI for his participation in the U.S.
attacks. Zhenyu specifically managed the domain accounts of fellow hackers with
his technical knowledge.
6. Wang
Dong
The same
Pennsylvania court convicted Wang Dong, alongside Huang Zhenyu and Gu Chunhui,
of cyber fraud while working for the PLA. The Chinese hacker also helped manage
domain accounts, but he also tested email viruses and malware. This malware
targeted company data, like internal emails and confidential nuclear plant
designs.
An Indian cyber
fraud criminal, Shaileshkumar P. Jain has a reward of up to $20,000 offered by
the FBI for a ransomware scheme that defrauded thousands across more than 60
countries. The ransomware infected the victim’s computer and tricked them into
thinking their network contained security issues. He then offered fraudulent
security software to remove the problems. Jain was born on February 10, 1970.
Bjorn Daniel Sundin
conspired with Shaileshkumar P. Jain through their cyber fraud company
Innovative Marketing, Inc. The online entrepreneur, born on August 7, 1978, in
Sweden, also has an FBI reward of $20,000 for his arrest. Sundin and Jain
managed to steal more than $100 million from victims between December of 2006
and October of 2008. If an unsatisfied customer approached them, they simply
bribed the complaint away to avoid being caught.
Farhan Ul Arshad is
from Karachi, Pakistan and was born on Jully 22, 1973. The FBI is offering up
to $20,000 in reward for a tip leading to his arrest. Ul Arshad is a member of
a global internet crime syndicate that reaches from Spain to Malaysia. In 2012,
a New Jersey District Court indicted him for cyber fraud schemes that robbed
victims of more than $50 million from November 2008 to April 2012.
