3 Nigerians Jailed For £1m Fraud In UK 
Published on July 13, 2011 by pmnews · 13 CommentsThree online Nigerian fraudsters have been jailed for stealing £1.1 million from bank customers by “phishing”.
Ayodeji Kareem, 39, Babatunde Fafore, 41, and Vincent Alonge, 32, had tried to steal £4.25 million during the two-year fraud, reports Evening Standard of London.
The Nigerians hacked into thousands of bank accounts but were caught after a victim returned from holiday to find an email message containing 600 names, addresses and passwords.
The three suspects
This led the Police Central E-crime Unit to Alonge and then Kareem and Fafore via 4,000 emails between them and other gang members.
Snaresbrook Crown Court heard that the fraudsters chatted online while accessing victims’ bank accounts. In one conversation in April 2008, Fafore typed: “Done, I did £3,019.23.”
Kareem was found to have 2,660 credit and debit card numbers along with details of 1,552 accounts and 15 bogus bank web pages.
The gang used the bogus pages to con victims into revealing confidential information, which they then used to obtain credit cards.
Fafore, the “principle conspirator”, had the numbers for 490 cards, details of 1,982 bank accounts and three fake bank web pages. Alonge had 12,745 sets of card details, 182 sets of account details and 22 bogus web pages.
One victim was fleeced out of £219,000 after the gang obtained his signature from Companies House.
Kareem, of Peckham, and Fafore, of County Neath, in Ireland, admitted conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to acquire and use criminal property.
Alonge, of Wimbledon, admitted possessing a false ID card and an article for use in fraud.
Fafore was jailed for five years and seven months, Kareem for five years and five months and Alonge for two years.
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goog idea
good idea
Nigerians will not stop disgracing us abroad. God please have mercy on your children, teach them to be contented with the little they have.
i know that guy in the middle from ibadan, very cool looking.
He looks familiar too. Did he ever worked in the then Standard Bank Nig. Plc in late 70′s?
Serve them right. Case Closed.
There are a lot of lessons for everyone to learn from this, though hopefully not anything starting with ‘most Nigerians are criminals.’
gud for them
the judge must be a nigerian too for sentencing them for such ridiculus years in jail. i would av given them 20-35 respectively. they will steal other peoples hard earned money nd come here to pose as Big men..some people will always blame govt even greed has eaten up the better part of them
i wonder why UK Court we send the a copy to Nigeria Police and also Nigeria Police is also in Fraudster in this Game So Ask the Federal to provide a Job for people ok
There is no rest to the wicked,as they will always be caught.
Thats good internet crime burster. These boys, they cant work and earn legitimate monies in foreign land?. The jail terms is good for them. NIGERIA POLICE should be Aided in bursting internet crime.