{"id":244648,"date":"2026-09-30T01:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/former-us-air-force-members-sent-to-prison-over-bec-attacks"},"modified":"2026-09-30T01:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T06:27:13","slug":"former-us-air-force-members-sent-to-prison-over-bec-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/former-us-air-force-members-sent-to-prison-over-bec-attacks","title":{"rendered":"Former US Air Force members sent to prison over BEC attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/former-us-air-force-members-sent-to-prison-over-bec-attacks.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two former members of the United States Air Force were sentenced to a combined 189 months in federal prison for their roles in a multi-year series of business email compromise (BEC) scams and phishing campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/28698210-odimegwu-mogaji-indictment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">court documents<\/a>, 25-year-old Chijioke Timothy Odimegwu and 26-year-old Harafat Mogaji carried out these attacks while stationed at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.<\/p>\n<p>They stole victims\u2019 employee email credentials in spamming and phishing campaigns. The defendants then used \u201cspoofed\u201d email addresses that mimicked business partners\u2019 emails, along with the credentials, to redirect payments to accounts controlled by accomplices in the United States and abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two former members of the United States Air Force were sentenced to a combined 189 months in federal prison for their roles in a multi-year series of business email compromise (BEC) scams and phishing campaigns. According to court documents, 25-year-old Chijioke Timothy Odimegwu and 26-year-old Harafat Mogaji carried out these attacks while stationed at Dover [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,34,1493,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-law-enforcement","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}