Nigerian scammers posing as the Inaugural Committee for United States President, Donald Trump, and Vice President JD Vance election allegedly stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency.

According to the civil complaint filed by federal prosecutors on Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., the perpetrators used fake email addresses designed to mimic official accounts to “trick or coerce victims into providing them money.”

The scammers used deceptive email addresses ending in “@t47lnaugural.com,” substituting a lowercase “l” for the letter “i” in “inaugural,” to trick victims into believing they were communicating with the official Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee.

This scheme led victims to send over 250,300 USDT stablecoin—worth approximately $250,300.

According to the civil complaint, the emails were sent in December and falsely claimed to be from Steve Witkoff, who was then serving as co-chair of the committee.

The filing was first reported Thursday by Court Watch.

“The victim believed they were contributing a donation to the Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee through a false email address,” the filing reads.

According to the complaint, about half of the stolen USDT was recovered from a Binance account registered to Ehiremen Aigbokhan, whose listed address is in Nigeria.

The U.S. government is moving to permanently seize nearly 40,400 USDT from the stolen funds, aiming to “punish and deter criminal activity by depriving criminals of property used in or acquired through illegal activities” and to “recover assets that may be used to compensate victims,” according to the complaint.

The filing states that within 24 hours of the victim’s cryptocurrency transfer, approximately 215,000 USDT was moved “to numerous other cryptocurrency addresses.”