In recent years, Romania has earned quite a reputation in the online scam world. (So much so that Wired magazine devoted an entire feature to Romania’s “Hackerville” in January 2011.) Typically, those scams involve cars being posted on Craigslist, eBay, or another website at absurdly low prices and, after a victim pays a small fee—you guessed it—it turns out there's no car at all.

But now it seems that at least some of those criminals have drawn the ire of the American legal system.

On Thursday, the FBI and the United States Department of Justice unsealed federal charges against Nicolae Popescu, described by American authorities as “the leader of an international organized crime syndicate that ran a multimillion dollar cyber fraud scheme.” The charges also include five other Romanians and one Albanian, who the government alleges netted a total of $3 million by conducting fraudulent transactions on eBay, Cars.com, and other online sites.

As the Department of Justice wrote:

The defendants employed co-conspirators who corresponded with the victim buyers by e-mail, sending fraudulent certificates of title and other information designed to lure the victims into parting with their money. The defendants allegedly even pretended to sell cars from nonexistent auto dealerships in the United States and created phony websites for these fictitious dealerships. As part of the scheme, the defendants produced and used high-quality fake passports to be used as identification by co-conspirators in the United States to open US bank accounts.

The FBI posted an online wanted poster for Popsecu, adding that Interpol has also issued red notices to “foreign law enforcement partners.”

“Using forged documents and phony websites, for years Popescu and his criminal syndicate reached across the ocean to pick the pockets of hard-working Americans looking to purchase cars,” US Attorney Loretta E. Lynch said in a statement. “They thought their distance would insulate them from law enforcement scrutiny. They were wrong. By now, Popescu and his band of fugitives have seen their co-conspirators brought here to account for their crimes. Today’s actions place them squarely in the sights of our partners in international law enforcement. We will not stop in our efforts to find these fugitives and bring them to justice for the crimes they have allegedly committed against our citizens.”