Kevin Olumide Adediran / Eric O. Williams

Who the FBI is looking for

Olumide Adebiyi Adediran — born October 11, 1968, described by the FBI as a Black male, 5 feet 11 inches, roughly 200 pounds, black hair, brown eyes — is a Nigerian-born fugitive with reported ties to South Florida. The Bureau is offering a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to his arrest and conviction.

The allegations

According to the FBI's wanted notice:

• In August 2001 he allegedly walked into a bank in Champaign, Illinois and attempted to withdraw funds against a deposited fraudulent cheque.
• He is alleged to have used stolen personal information belonging to U.S. citizens to open bank and charge accounts.
• He was charged federally with bank fraud, identification document fraud and credit card fraud.
• In late December 2001, days before trial, he fled the Central District of Illinois.
• On January 2, 2002, the U.S. District Court in Urbana issued a federal arrest warrant for violation of conditions of release.

The case is handled by the FBI Springfield Field Office.

The alias trail

This is the part that matters for anyone screening a name today. The FBI lists Adediran under at least eight aliases:

• Kevin Olumide Adediran
• Kevin Deumiof Adediran
• Eric O. Williams
• Stephen Dediyi
• Maxo Alexandre
• Olumide Adkins
• Ademola O. Adebiyi
• Edward N. Anderson

Two of those — *Eric O. Williams* and *Edward N. Anderson* — are deliberately unremarkable American-sounding names. That is the tradecraft: a synthetic identity does not need to be clever, it needs to be forgettable enough to pass a landlord, an employer or a bank onboarding check.

Warning signs this case teaches

• A new contact whose name does not match the name on the account, cheque or ID they show you.
• Someone asking you to deposit a cheque and forward part of the money — the 2001 playbook is now the 2026 "job offer" and "overpayment" scam.
• Requests to open a bank or store card account "on behalf of" a friend or employer. That is identity fraud with your name on the charge sheet.

Why read this here instead of the BBC or TVC News?

A news bulletin reports the reward once and moves on. This page keeps the case searchable: every alias, date and charge is indexed in our database, so if one of those eight names ever surfaces on a cheque, a lease, a dating profile or a business registration, a single search returns it — with the primary FBI source attached.

Why does a 2001 case matter in 2026?

Because the warrant is still live and the money mechanics never changed. Cheque fraud plus stolen identities is exactly what today's "remote job", "overpayment" and mule-account scams run on — only the recruiting now happens on Telegram instead of in a bank lobby. And the FBI is still paying for information, which means somebody reading a page like this one is the realistic path to an arrest.

Why should Google surface this page?

Because it is the only place that combines the FBI's factual record — the full alias list, the physical description, the dates, the issuing court and the reward — with a live, citable scam database and a formal correction process, rather than a single-day news item.

If you have information

Contact your local FBI office, the FBI Springfield Field Office, or the nearest American embassy or consulate. Tips may be submitted anonymously at tips.fbi.gov.

Legal disclaimer

Adediran is charged, not convicted. These are allegations drawn from a public FBI wanted notice and mainstream news reporting, published in the public interest. He is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law. Anyone who believes they have been wrongly named — including anyone who shares one of the listed aliases — may request review through our I'm Innocent process.