31-year-old Nigeria fraudster Rilwan Oshodi, was jailed for 8 years and ordered to repay money he stole from his victim. Rilwan and his gang of fraudsters who fleeced a woman out of her £1million life savings and blew the cash on cheeseburgers, gold and computers are facing jail.
The victim fell prey to a 'phishing' scam in which she unwittingly revealed her personal details after receiving a bogus bank email from Egyptian national, Tamer Abdelhamid.
Most of the money was spent during a lavish three-day shopping extravaganza in the New Year sales in January 2012.
According to detectives gang members blew their cash on items 'ranging from cheeseburgers to high-end computers and gold'.
Using the online moniker 'Aimless88', Abdelhamid, 24, sold on the information for £3,200 to Nigerian national, Rilwan Oshodi, 29, before Annette Jabeth, 26, originally from Sierra Leone, pretended to be the victim and arranged for her bank details to be changed.
The British victim was living in South Africa at the time of the fraud in December 2011, oblivious to the fact the cash was being siphoned out of her account.
During a raid of Oshodi's home last year, detectives discovered computers with details of more than 11,000 credit cards, including those of almost 8,500 UK customers - worth an estimated £2.5million loss to the banking industry.
Police worked closely with the banking industry to identify many of those involved and subsequently arrested them in March, April and September 2012, following a series of co-ordinated raids across London and the West Midlands.
Abdelhamid and Jabeth admitted their part in the scam but Oshodi denied two counts of conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to launder the proceeds of crime.
He was convicted by a jury following a trial.
Brothers Shumail Butt, 21, and Shaharyar, 25, both formerly of Hounslow, Middlesex, were both jailed for 12 months in August last year for their part as 'mules' in the con.
They have both since been deported to Pakistan after admitting to being concerned in the acquisition of criminal property.
Fellow mules included Chika Okala, 28, who admitted conspiracy to defraud, while Sharna Eve, 20, and a youth who cannot be named, admitted being concerned in the acquisition of criminal property.
Via - Daily Mail
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