American cybercrime expert, Gary Warner, has described reports claiming that suspected internet fraudster Ramon Abbas, also known as Hushpuppi, laundered $400,000 in prison as fake.
Tracknews reports that Warner is the Director of Research in Computer Forensics at the University of Alabama, United States.
A purported court document showing how popular Instagram celebrity Hushpuppi allegedly committed fraud and laundered over $400,000 from behind bars surfaced online on Wednesday.
According to the document, Hushpuppi while in prison reportedly participated in the purchase and laundering of Economic Impact Payment debit cards fraudulently obtained from stolen data of U.S citizens and residents.
The document was said to have been presented before the United States District Court of California by US prosecutors indicting Hushpuppi of committing fraud in a U.S federal correctional facility.
In a tweet via his Twitter page on Thursday, Warner disclosed that the viral document claimed to be presented by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was fake.
He revealed that the document was an edited version of a June 2020 affidavit and a ploy to get people to visit the scammer EIP website stated in the document.
He wrote, “People are asking me if it is true that #Hushpuppi laundered $400,000 in #Stimulus cards from in prison.
“The document they show is an edit of a June 2020 Affidavit. The new version is fake, intended to get people to visit a scammer EIP website.”
