Dyer

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

MIN JI GOO DYER,

Case No. 23-cv-01226-JCS Plaintiff, 8 v. ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR ALTERNATIVE SERVICE CHIKE EZEH, et al., Re: Dkt. No. 109 Defendants.

12 I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff Min Ji Goo Dyer, after extensive efforts, has identified one of the Doe defendants initially named in this case, Chike Ezeh, who is linked to a bitcoin account into which Plaintiff was fraudulently induced to deposit funds. As the Court explained in its May 8, 2025 Order, the account information Plaintiff obtained from a third party included an email address and a physical address in Nigeria for Ezeh. See dkt. no. 91. The Court initially rejected Plaintiff’s request to serve Ezeh at the email address because Plaintiff was unable to supply evidence that Ezeh used or checked that email address. Id. Therefore, Plaintiff engaged a process server in Nigeria who attempted to serve Ezeh at the…