Man Gets 5-Year Sentence for Email Scam That Cost Facebook, Google $120M

A Lithuanian man who scammed Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google into sending him more than $120 million must serve five years in prison, a judge said. Evaldas Rimasauskas, 50, and his accomplices engaged in a phishing scheme, sending emails to employees and agents of the two tech giants that appeared to be from a major Taiwanese hardware maker that was a business partner of both companies.

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