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Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by White007(m): 5:02pm On Feb 01, 2016
*Missing some Wonga? Mastermind of scam that tricked payday lender of out £3million is jailed for six years after he was caught because he used the same password on 19,000 applications

*Kelvin Okusanya, from Milton Keynes, exploited the website's algorithms
*His gang used unsuspecting people's details to make the loan applications
*Victims left having to pay interest payments on loans they didn't submit
*But group were caught after using the password 'Bengali90' 19,000 times






The mastermind behind a £3million Wonga scam which used the identities of thousands of innocent members of the public to withdraw cash has been jailed for six years.

Kelvin Okusanya, 32, was part of a gang which exploited the company's website algorithms to make more than 19,000 loan applications using the same password 'Bengali90'.

The cash was then laundered through hundreds of bank accounts by the fraudsters while the unsuspecting victims were left facing paying the one per cent a day interest payments.

Okusanya was convicted of fraud after the Old Bailey heard he personally made 82 false applications involving 30 victims.

The judge, Mr Recorder Sells QC, said: 'The names and details of wholly innocent members of the public were used to make fraudulent loan applications on a massive scale.

'Some were even contacted by Wonga for the loans they had not applied for and knew nothing about.

'Such offences are corrosive of the trust which people hold in the financial services sector. They are increasingly prevalent, they are easy to commit and hard to detect.'

The judge told Okusanya: 'You were described during the trial as the mastermind and one of the controlling minds of the whole of this fraud.

'I am satisfied that you were a leading member of a criminal enterprise which intended to get many millions of pounds.'

Eight others were convicted of laundering the proceeds of the cash through bank accounts under their control.

Prosecutor Richard Hearnden told the court: 'The criminals netted over £3million by targeting one of Britain's most controversial institutions, the pay day lender Wonga.


'Wonga paid out on thousands of payday loans. Each of these loans was only for a few hundred pounds but added together these loans amounted to millions.

'The fraud came about by stealing the names, dates of birth, addresses, email addresses, mobile phone numbers and debit card numbers of literally thousands of ordinary members of the public.

'The fraudsters that were operating this scam probably bought ready-made lists of potential victims and their personal financial data. How precisely this data was secured is not known.'

The trial focused on 30 victims but this was 'the smallest tip of a very substantial iceberg' according to Mr Hearnden.

Applications were made online by entering names, addresses and dates of birth together with the debit card number used to make repayments and the details of the account receiving the cash.

Wonga uses an algorithm to determine whether the information provided is correct and whether the account number matches the name and other details of the person applying for the loan.

Mr Hearnden said: 'It would appear that this algorithm failed.

'The result was as many as 19,000 fraudulent applications were successfully processed and paid out.

'The money was paid into bank accounts that had nothing to do with the people named in the loan application.

'Some repayments were actually made to Wonga fraudulently - in other words some innocent people made repayments for loans which they hadn't applied for.'

Mr Hearnden said it was possible to identify 19,013 fraudulent applications by the same 'criminal outfit' because they used the same password.

'This password Bengali90 had slipped through the algorithms which hadn't noticed the criminality,' added the prosecutor.

Okusanya, of Lockhart Avenue, Milton Keynes, denied but was convicted of three counts of fraud by false representation.

Police Staff Investigator Andy Cope, from the City of London Police, said: 'This group of money mules would have been working in partnership with the people making the fraudulent loan applications, together taking millions of pounds from Wonga and committing identity crime on an industrial level.

'Being a money mule may seem like a relatively harmless offence, but law enforcement views it very differently. We are committed to stopping those middle-men who enable fraud and other crimes.'

Olu Fasoranti, 32, was jailed for three years, Sophia Pusey-Carroll, 46, was jailed for 21 months and Monika Solarz, 28, was jailed for 18 months.

Omotola Wellington, 31, was sentenced to two years imprisonment suspended for two years, Maureen Ako, 35, was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment suspended for two years and 200 hours unpaid work, and Sherene Bascoe, 21, was sentenced to nine months suspended for two years and 140 hours unpaid work.

Michelle Deola, 23, was given a community order with 100 hours unpaid work, and Kerone Clayton, 42, and Clement Bankole, 38, were given community orders with 40 hours unpaid work.

Wellington, of Burnden Close, Brentford, west London, Fasoranti, of The Hollands, Feltham, west London, Pusey-Carroll, of Byron Court, Byron Road, Harrow, north west London, Ako, of Snipe Close, Erith, south east London, Bascoe, of Marlow Court, Pinner Road, Harrow.

Deola, of Langdale Avenue, Hayes, west London, Clayton, of Barnwood Road, Birmingham, and Bankole, of Walmer Terrace, Plumstead, south east London, all denied but were convicted of entering into an arrangement facilitating the acquisition of criminal property.

Solarz, of Audley Road, Hendon, pleaded guilty to entering into an arrangement facilitating the acquisition of criminal property.




http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3426440/Missing-Wonga-Mastermind-scam-tricked-payday-lender-3million-jailed-six-years-caught-used-password-19-000-applications.html

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Re: Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by Nobody: 5:12pm On Feb 01, 2016
Na dem they giv Nigerians bad name!... Nawa ooooo






It's Atobilobah!

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Re: Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by Descartes: 5:15pm On Feb 01, 2016
Na them not a surprise when I see London lipsrsealed

shocked shocked shocked
Kelvin Okusanya, 32

Olu Fasoranti, 32,

motola Wellington, 31,

Michelle Deola, 23,

Clement Bankole, 38,

You can now judge, over to you name checkers

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Re: Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by Nobody: 5:22pm On Feb 01, 2016
I came to check name. cool

Gee boys. cool

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Re: Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by Agunnewi: 5:22pm On Feb 01, 2016
Oops!!!! I personally know 2 of this guys, they reside in Milton Keynes, and drives around in a Bentley GT coupe.

And to think 2 of this scam artist are nairalanders makes it all the more depressing. Smdh.

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Re: Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by odogwu125: 5:22pm On Feb 01, 2016
Brow roof republic and fraud

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Re: Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by chigoizie7(m): 5:23pm On Feb 01, 2016
Ok
Re: Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by Cholls(m): 5:24pm On Feb 01, 2016
Descartes:
Na them lipsrsealed
Kelvin Okusanya, 32

Olu Fasoranti, 32,
my brother finish am make dem burn u alive.

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Re: Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by kossyablaze(m): 5:27pm On Feb 01, 2016
I av never made tribal comments on NL....I won't start today!.......and emmmmm I think this is y the British Police added thr Language in thr operandi cuz dey constitute greater %age of crimes committed in the UK by foreigners.

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Re: Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by EasternPride: 5:31pm On Feb 01, 2016
Mehn.
Descartes:
Na them not a surprise when I see London lipsrsealed
shocked shocked shocked
Kelvin Okusanya, 32
Olu Fasoranti, 32,
motola Wellington, 31,
Michelle Deola, 23,
Clement Bankole, 38,
You can now judge, over to you name checkers

Best of my knowledge, selling gala is better than this kind of scam.

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Re: Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by Descartes: 5:34pm On Feb 01, 2016
EasternPride:
Mehn.


Best of my knowledge, selling gala is better than this kind of scam.

My brother this is 'sophistication' in Full HD grin

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Re: Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by Prodigee: 5:38pm On Feb 01, 2016
Ehen sad?!
Re: Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by EasternPride: 5:44pm On Feb 01, 2016
Descartes:


My brother this is 'sophistication' in Full HD grin

cheesy you dey find trouble oh.

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Re: Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by nwadiuko1(m): 5:58pm On Feb 01, 2016
peace loving sophisticated "hosts "

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Re: Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by Ebukaobi: 6:05pm On Feb 01, 2016
Scammers!

They should go to Jail

Useless people

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Re: Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by Nobody: 6:15pm On Feb 01, 2016
Not again. They all look funny. No wonder dechandel doesn't like them. undecided
Or does she? shocked

No, she doesn't. grin

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Re: Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by pyyxxaro: 6:16pm On Feb 01, 2016
Sai 9ja
Re: Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by lankieman: 6:17pm On Feb 01, 2016
Take back some of the loot from Nigeria jare kudos grin
Re: Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by Nobody: 6:17pm On Feb 01, 2016
undecided
Re: Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by Buhari4dullard: 6:18pm On Feb 01, 2016
Not disappointed

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Re: Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by kobonaire(m): 6:19pm On Feb 01, 2016
Chai!!
Re: Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by peterovanski(m): 6:19pm On Feb 01, 2016
Yea
Re: Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by kennyman2000(m): 6:19pm On Feb 01, 2016
ohhh boy!
Re: Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by Afriface: 6:19pm On Feb 01, 2016
wow! money in the jail
Re: Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by bright007(f): 6:19pm On Feb 01, 2016
Ok, I came to check the names and I admit that I am not disappointed by the nomenclature.

Na dem dem


But this password called bengali90....Can it work on the this ATM in my area?

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Re: Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by tunde1200(m): 6:20pm On Feb 01, 2016
Na lie the name na Kelvin okechukwu. From usual area know for fraud.
grin
Re: Nigerian Man And His Gangs Scammed British Citizens Of £3million Pics by naijaboiy: 6:21pm On Feb 01, 2016
£3million?! shockedshocked

Wait!

£3,000,000 x #286.38= #858,000,000.

Oluwa o!!! shockedshockedshocked

Those guys bin don hammer sha embarassed

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