Lawyer Impersonation

To protect the identity of the victim, their name has been changed to Victim AA. The Lawyer has been named CB to comply with privacy laws

Evidence related to the fraud described can be viewed below in the 'Evidence/Screenshots' gallery and are italicized in the story

'IBC The Scammer' impersonated a lawyer, Christian Becker (the same lawyer that unkowningly facilitated his fraudulent Chilean citizenship application).

'IBC The Scammer' told Victim AA he had connections in Chile and could obtain citizenship legitimately, through an investment scheme - there is currently and at the time was no citizenship by investment scheme in Chile. He “introduced” Victim AA to his Chilean “lawyer”, Cristian Becker, to start the application process.

AA was in frequent communication with the “lawyer”, and made payments to facilitate the application. AA has provided 2 invoices worth a total sum of $90,129.

(See Falsified Invoice by IB to Victim AA (For YYYY Application)_Redacted.pdf and Falsified Invoice by IB to Victim AA (For XXX Application)_Redacted.pdf)

Allegedly, these invoices do not account for the sums paid by other clients. The total sum is estimated to be c.$200,000.

AA raised concerns with the “lawyer” when making the initial invoice payment – AA believed his invoice was misaddressed/misnamed due to the fact that 'IBC The Scammer’s name and Wasere (Ires previous betting company, which he was kicked out of) email address somehow appeared on the invoice. He asked for, and received clarification from the "lawyer".

(See Victim AA to Fake Lawyer 1- Email about 'IB' in invoice, Victim AA to Fake Lawyer 2- Email about 'IB' in invoice).

According to the “lawyer”, the ‘mistake’ was down to ‘teething problems with Pay Pals invoicing system’.

AA introduced his business clients to this citizenship investment scheme, 3 in total.

The “lawyer” sent 3 Power of Attorney documents to Chilean embassies for all the applicants (Victim AA, Victim AAs 1st Client, Victim AAs 2nd Client) to sign.

Some time passed with no updates leading to AA contacting his “lawyer” for an update. By some twist of fate, he contacted the real Christian Becker, who knew nothing of the application. AA then contacted 'IBC The Scammer' who, as a concerned friend promised to get to the bottom of the fraud!

'IBC The Scammer' had his ‘people on it’. They were going to get to the bottom of this and find the person(s) attempting to defraud AA and his clients aka the person(s) misrepresenting Christian Becker.

To add another layer of complexity to this case. AA was also keeping the real Christian Becker updated about the case, informing him that 'IBC The Scammer' had traced an unknown party impersonating him.

(See LinkedIn 1- The Real Christian Becker and Victim AA.jpeg, LinkedIn 2- The Real Christian Becker and Victim AA and LinkedIn 3- The Real Christian Becker and Victim AA).

As evidenced, Christian Becker is wary of this update; however, due to AAs decade long friendship with 'IBC The Scammer', he believes him wholly. AA reports his linkedin conversation back to 'IBC The Scammer'.

'IBC The Scammer' goes on to empathize with the real Christian Beckers caution (during his LinkedIn conversation with AA) and ‘casually’ suggests AA refrain from contacting him.

(TEXT 1 - IB to Victim AA (Post discovery) and TEXT 2 - IB to Victim AA (Post discovery)

A few weeks later, 'IBC The Scammer's apparent contact (Kenli) at Registro Civil (The Civil Registry and Identification Service of Chile) determined it was a disgruntled former employee of Christian Becker's who was impersonating him and semi-defrauding AA.

(See TEXT 3- IB to Victim AA (Update from IB on Fraud) and TEXT 4- IB to Victim AA (Update from IB on Fraud)).

According to 'IBC The Scammer', this employee only wanted to keep the legal fees and had actually paid some of the ‘required monies’ to the registro/civil registry for AAs application.

As evidenced, 'IBC The Scammer' suggested they find another lawyer for AA while he attempts to recoup AAs funds.

A few months pass and ‘efforts’ to get feedback and funds back from the registro/civil registry stall. 'IBC The Scammer' ‘messages’ his contact for updates.

(See IB messaging his 'contact' about Victim AAs fraud). As shown, ‘his contact’ blames the delays on the pandemic.

2 years later, AAs money is still nowhere to be found.

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It turns out 'IBC The Scammer' Balogun was playing multiple roles. 'IBC The Scammer' Balogun was CB (Lawyer 2) (NOTE THE SPELLING) and also the Registro contact, Kenli.

As per evidenced screenshot, “IB Inbox showing payment for domain”, 'IBC The Scammer' purchased the domain name cristianbecker.com and set up the fake email address consultas@cristianbecker.com to take on his role as a lawyer. He also sent emails to other unknown victims

(See Gmail - Naturalisation Process - Pretending To Be Cristian Becker_Redacted - Other Potential Victims, IB sending messages as 'Himself' from same inbox, Screenshot of email from fake CB in Ires sent Messages).

To add weight to his lie, he provided AA with screenshots of himself discussing with his ‘contact’, Kenli. Evidence obtained from a friend of Kenlis prove that the entire conversation between 'IBC The Scammer' and him/her is 100% false.

(See 1. Confirmation from Kenli and 2. Confirmation from Kenli).

Noting the timeline of the impersonation fraud above (approx. April 2019), 'IBC The Scammer' managed to initially isolate Victim AA from the real Christian Becker by telling him to ignore AAs documentation. (See IB telling CB to hold off)

In early May 2019, as part of the application process with ‘Cristian Becker’, AA sent government documentation to the real Christian Becker.

Christian, enquired with 'IBC The Scammer' (Remember AA is NOT a client of Christians) having unexpectedly received AAs documents from Nigeria. 'IBC The Scammer' proceeded to tell Christian ‘AA jumped the gun’ and that Christian should ignore the documentation ‘for now’ pending the gathering of ‘proper information and the retention of his services’.

'IBC The Scammer' set up a multi-layered, multi-level scheme to defraud someone who called him a brother.