Acting U.S. Attorney Michael M. Simpson has announced that a Nigerian, Daniel Chima Inweregbu, aged 40, pled guilty on August 21, 2025, before United States District Judge Nanette Jolivette Brown to a more than four hundred and five thousand dollars romance scam.
A statement by the Public Information Officer, United States Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Louisiana, United States Department of Justice, Shane M. Jones, said he pled guilty to two of the counts pending against him, including conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud, and using an assumed name to commit a mail fraud scheme.
Inweregbu’s plea stemmed from his role in a lengthy romance scam targeting American citizens.
Between at least July 1st, 2017, and December 16th, 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.
The statement said Inweregbu and his co-conspirators created profiles on social media and online dating sites using the alias “Larry Pham,” purportedly a middle-aged male, to attract middle-aged female victims.
Inweregbu faces up to 20 years in prison, and sentencing before Judge Brown has been scheduled for December 4th, 2025.
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