Popular Instagram celebrity, Ramon Abbas better known as Hushpuppi has allegedly been slammed with fresh charges as US prosecutors submit court documents showing how he committed fraud and laundered over $400,000 from behind bars.
According to a publication by journalist, Mathilde Salome Bonnet, US prosecutors on Wednesday presented documents before the U.S. District Court of California with fresh fraud evidence against Mr Abbas.
The journalist stated that the documents indicated that Mr Abbas, while awaiting his sentencing on July 11 for multimillion dollars fraud case, committed fraud and money laundering at the U.S Federal correctional facility.
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Court documents shared by Bonnet stated that Hushpuppi, while in U.S Federal correctional facility, participated in the purchase and laundering of Economic Impact Payment (EIP) debit cards fraudulently obtained from stolen data of U.S citizens and residents.
Economic Impact Payments are financial support offered by the US government to U.S residents according to the CARES Act. One of the ways eligible US residents receive their Economic Impact Payments is by debit cards.
The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, also known as the CARES Act, is a $2.2 trillion economic stimulus bill passed by the 116th U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump on March 27, 2020, in response to the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
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From the documents presented in court, it was found that hackers use data of U.S residents to file and obtain Economic Impact Payments debit cards. They sell off these EIP cards in underground marketplaces to other cyber criminals.
In the court document, US prosecutors mentioned that inmates are allowed access to phone calls, video calls, internet, and computers with limited usage but they are not monitored because inmates have right to their privacy.
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Just like others, Hushpuppi also received this access which enabled him to commit another fraud.
Between January 28 and March 4, 2022, security officers at the US Federal correctional
facility, observed more usage of the internet by
Hushpuppi.
Knowing that Hushpuppi was arrested
for internet related crimes, they obtained a warrant to record Hushpuppi activities.
A dedicated system was setup for him and his activities were recorded for 7 days.
It was found that Hushpuppi was actively buying EIP debit cards from an underground cyber criminal marketplace called StimulusCard (“https://ift.tt/XS1ILjy).
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While being recorded, Hushpuppi bought a total of 58 EIP debit cards with a total value of $429,800 on the site and laundered the money through one AJ.
Below are court documents from the U.S. Attorney’s Office (USAO) for the Central District of California that Bonnet shared in her publication;
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