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£1.1million Nigerian fraudsters jailed

Con men responsible from stealing thousands from innocent businessmen sentenced
26/07/2011 06:09 PM

JAILED: (left to right) Babatunde Fafore, Ayodeji Kareem and Vincent Alonge

THREE Nigerian men have been found guilty of £1.1million online fraud scheme.

Ayodeji Kareem, 39, Babatunde Fafore, 41 and Vincent Alonge, 32, were jailed for stealing £1.1 million from bank customers, whose personal details they acquired using a method called, Phishing, where sensitive information is obtained by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

According to one report, the conmen fleeced £219,000 from one of their victims by obtaining his signature from Companies House.

Kareem, Fafore and Alonge 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.

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.

Alonge, of Wimbledon, admitted possessing a false ID card and an article for use in fraud. He was found in possession of 12,745 sets of card details, 182 sets of account details and 22 bogus web pages.

Fafore, the principal conspirator, who was jailed for five years and seven months at Snaresbrook crown court, had the numbers for 490 cards, details of 1,982 bank accounts and three fake bank web pages.

The court also 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 of Peckham, south London, was sentenced to five years and five months and Alonge, from Wimbledon, south London, for two years.

Posted on: 26/07/2011 06:09 PM

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Well they do claim to b more

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Well they do claim to b more intelligent than we are. I now c why!!

Wed, 2011-07-27 06:50

'Intelligent'? I Don't Think So...

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I really don't see how their behaviour could in any way be called 'intelligent'. If anything, these kind of confidence tricksters are generally, in my opinion, pretty stupid.

If you actually look at the quality of some of the phishing emails which are regularly sent out they are pretty appallingly worded, littered with stupid basic mistakes and lacking the common sense to see how transparent their con trick is.

It's terrible that people are hoodwinked into believing them. Often these scams have an aspect of greed involved which is used to hook in 'unsuspecting' victims. But really they are, in fact, so lacking in 'intelligence' that its pretty obvious what the true motive is in sending them in the first place.

Good to see that these men have been caught and sentenced.

It would be even better if the Nigerian Government, rather than just paying lip service to the idea that they wish to see an end to international Nigerian con-artistry, actually did something within their own country to end the very conditions of abject poverty and disregard for human life which create this kind of idiotic ill-behaviour in the first place.

This kind of behaviour is not the behaviour of happy, healthy and well-balanced individuals.

Wed, 2011-07-27 14:21

1.1million pound Nigerian fraudsters jailed.

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I am surprised! that's all the time they got? these b****rds should rot in jail, we are sick and tired of these fraudsters, that's what they go to school to learn to do? or is it a subject in one of their text book? all over the world these Nigerians make it an habit to make their living by conning people out of their hard earned money. A message needed to be sent by putting them away for a long time when they are caught so when they get out they don't even remember what color they were when they went in.

Wed, 2011-07-27 04:37

And then they go on as if

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And then they go on as if they are better than us looking down their noses and all they are are educated teef pure and simple! Not so sophisitcated after all are they - why jail them here wasting my hard earned taxes - deport their teefing backsides back to Nigeria where they belong!

Tue, 2011-07-26 20:12