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Key Takeaways
- Sze Man Yu Inos, sentenced to 71 months federal prison April 23, 2026.
- Wire fraud conviction – 18 U.S.C. § 1343.
- Victims: older women in Saipan, Guam, Washington, and California.
- Operation ran November 2020 to January 2022.
- Method: affinity fraud.
- Forged a federal judge’s signature to advance the manipulation.
- Restitution ordered: $769,355.67 to victims.
- Forfeiture: $684,848.34.
Between November 2020 and January 2022, Sze Man Yu Inos approached older women in Saipan and Guam, claiming to be a successful businesswoman from a wealthy Chinese family who had made her fortune investing in Bitcoin. She treated them to expensive meals and gifts. She shared fictitious personal problems. She told them they were like mothers to her.
Only after that emoti...
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