A Nigerian man has been sentenced to three years and nine months for taking part in a $1.5 m phishing scam targeting UK students.
Olajide Onikoyi, 29-year-old, from Manchester, was one of the person of a criminal group who targeted students by sending phishing emails inviting them to update student load details.
According to SKY News, he laundered £393,000 from 238 victims in total, including one student who had £19,000 taken from his account.
When Metropolitan police central e-crime unit seized his computers, they found a chat logs that revealed he was conspiring with criminals in Russia, Lithuania and UK.
A number of other people have also been jailed in connection with the scam.
Olajide Onikoyi, 29-year-old, from Manchester, was one of the person of a criminal group who targeted students by sending phishing emails inviting them to update student load details.
According to SKY News, he laundered £393,000 from 238 victims in total, including one student who had £19,000 taken from his account.
When Metropolitan police central e-crime unit seized his computers, they found a chat logs that revealed he was conspiring with criminals in Russia, Lithuania and UK.
A number of other people have also been jailed in connection with the scam.
Users are all advised to be extreme caution when clicking links in unsolicited emails, log into the websites directly by entering the url of the site instead of clicking the link.