But in July this year, his social media posts stopped on rumors of the Nigerians arrest began to by police posted this dramatic video to confirm it.

He and his associates were arrested and accused of amassing their riches through hacking a very specific type of hacking known as B E.

C or business email compromise that the crux of business email compromise is a scammer Impersonating either, um, executive or a business and then tricking a person, um, into sending them money.

Hush Puppy claims he earns his money legitimately as an influencer.

He's now in the U.

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Awaiting trial in the spring.

He says he's innocent, but if he's found guilty, he could face 20 years in prison.

Nigerian authorities describe Hush Puppy as their most wanted hacker, But in truth, experts say, the country is the epicenter of this type of extremely costly cyber scanning.

Last week, Interpol arrested three more Nigerians suspected of running another prolific BC operation.

The FBI says globally, criminals are stealing nearly $9 billion a year through BC hacking The latest research from cybersecurity company A gari suggests that scammers can be found in 50 different countries and 50% of all BC attacks originate in Nigeria.

For months, Cigars Team has worked to track down some of the criminals to find out how on why they do it.

They paid a small amount to each hacker to take part.

Only one agreed to a recorded interview and I was invited.

X says he was lured into BC hacking at university.

I myself actually wanted to be like Mark Zuckerberg So e and that Betty, it was not the easy mixed with new people, different ideas.

Okay, this guy is which reaction that.

Okay, how did you make such amount of money?

Everybody wants to be which speed is everything.

Once the victim mistakenly transfers money to the gang, they only have hours to get it out of the bank and spend it.

You pick always want the money very fast, like in the next flowers before you guys start acting questions.

Previously, Nigerian hackers were associated with the infamous Nigerian prince scam emails.

Experts say the shift to BC attacks happened about five or so years ago as more money could be made from tricking companies over individuals.

This hacker says he's so far made $72 much Mawr than in his day job as a Web developer.

Do you feel guilty about what you're doing because you're stealing money, aren't you?

MM, loathe people in your hacking group?

Do they feel guilty?

They're looking a little bit of huge because there have been cases where we actually we turn off the money.

They emailed us on the Christian present.

This exact amount, I think, the amount of that wanted on 62 case.

This pity appears to be very rare.

The B C world is full of hackers trying to get rich quick.

The hacker we spoke to says he's not scared of getting caught, but police say they're working hard to clamp down on criminals.

We carry out targeted reads at horse sports on after arrest.

We have been prosecuting, sending a lot of them, too toe.

Prison police also hope that high profile arrests like Hush puppies are making a difference.