"The couple were part of a global internet banking scam which could have netted a phenomenal £19million after hacking the accounts of nearly 2,500 people. Aderoju and Jessica were the UK 'platform' for a Nigerian 'phishing' scam that made £41,000 in just two months.
The plot, masterminded by a gang in Nigeria, involved sending fake emails to customers of banks including Barclays and Halifax. The emails told recipients that their accounts had been hacked and asked them to complete a form with their log-in details. But when victims obliged, Bammeke stepped in and helped the gang log in to steal money.Fashion marketing student Ogunyemi, his girlfriend at the time, helped him launder the proceeds by putting funds in accounts, hiding cash and allowing him to buy her a £2,400 Vauxhall Corsa.
Bammeke has now been jailed for three-and-a-half years at Manchester Crown Court after admitting conspiracy to commit fraud and unauthorised computer use.
Ogunyemi admitted five counts of money laundering and was given a suspended prison sentence.
Michael Lavery, defending Ogunyemi, said she had brought shame on her family, including her train driver father and mother who works for Manchester council.
He said she had been 'naive', was predicted to get a first in her degree and was no longer in a relationship with Bammeke.
Bammeke had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to conspiracy to commit fraud and unauthorised computer use while Ogunyemi admitted five counts of money laundering.
Sentencing Bammeke, Judge Recorder Gibson said: 'This in my opinion was a sophisticated fraud, a clever fraud and a fraud which could very easily have resulted in very much more substantial money being stolen.'
He jailed Ogunyemi for a year, suspended for two years, and ordered her to complete 180 hours' unpaid work.
After the hearing, Detective Superintendent Janet Hudson of TITAN, the North-West Regional Crime Unit, said: 'The actions of Bammeke and Ogunyemi caused a great deal of stress and uncertainty to many affected bank customers who had their accounts accessed.
'As a result of the investigation, no customers were left out of pocket and the offenders were arrested and ultimately sentenced. Internet banking is considered a safe and secure method of banking.
'However, bank customers need to remain vigilant and aware of the danger posed by fraudsters. Customers should only ever navigate directly to an online bank website and should never click on any link sent to them through an email.
'Additionally when accessing bank accounts online customers should always be aware of the exact address in order to ensure that they are actually on a legitimate banking website.'
Source: Daily Mail UK
254 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 254 of 254You guys need to understand that out of every 10 Nigerian in the UK,5 or 6 of them are possibly yorubas so if any good or bad thing happens,it is also possible that a yoruba person did it.Apart from that,most of these Nigerians doing radarada in the UK are not even Nigerians per say,some of them have not even visited Nigeria for a day so why is the media always giving people wrong impressions?these people are only of Nigerian decent,they are British Citizens.
One RETARD:SEAN
BASTARD!
The worst part of everything is that these people are only of Nigerian decent..they are all British citizens,most of them have not even been to Naija before..Amo ra wa,ta ba ri ra wa.
ODE OSHI!
Ogun kill u!its "yoruba"nt yoroba dummy!
Am not a yoruba but I say dey are beta dan killing off innocent pple for rituals which is more punishable??atleast dey use technology not pple's private part!!!jst saying
Whether yoruba or igbo we are all nigerians so u guys should stop this tribal stuff,to be sincere I like yoruba people o
But when yoruba ppl were dissing yest you dint open your own mouth to caution them now these ones are bastards
The earlier you stop fighting yourselves the better for you all, after all they do not recognise the person as yoruba or igbo...they call them nigerians
Cheap silly bitch! £2400 Vauxhall corsa?
"Faces" aunty. 2 ppl cannot have 1 face.
Igbos and Yorubas please continue to fight and argue amongst urselves while the hausa man continues to steal ur national cake. Morons
U guys should dis tribal stuff cus it aint leading u 2 any where.
see ehn, all this pple...if una know d kind bad name una dey give hardworking honest pple ....why na.....greed!!!. no wonder stupid ann coulter fit open her yeye mouf spit nonsense... i dont want to play the tribe game here..but yoruba ple why?...and ibo pple make una no claim holy here too..una sef bad...abeg make una change na?...biko! pasisi!..mbok!. !M
U hate dis blog bt u comment,wu is immature here?person beg u make u lik am? Abeg park wel
Choi shut dat ur gutter mouth,infact I fit smel dat ur mouth.abeg linda post dis comment. Make dis person go shit
If our generation can reason like this then there is no hope for nigeria. Tribalism is no didferent from rascism, havent we learnt anything? Every tribe has ritualists, scammers and muderers, none is better than the other. Smh
Who asked you? You must be dirty like them sha
Boko Haram is Kanuri you educated illiterate!
Shut up dirty Yoruba boy
Who resemble monkey pass??
Fuck...casted TF
Yahoo, G, we dey try.
Well I won't mind using yorubas to do 'Monkey-soup' knowing fully well that yorubas and related to monkeys.
You so dumb! O pray there catch your stealing ass
As a sharp warri girl, I dey look and laugh! After you ibo and Yoruba and Hausa have sucked the Niger delta dry from stealing our oil blocks you fight among your self, hahaha, make I dey chop my popo garri and edible worm jare
And May the Good Lord forgive your utterances dear one.
@Ivory Chi....God bless u for enlightening tribalists(clueless pple).They are trying to divide Nigeria by all means!Whether u re ibo,Yoruba or Hausa,u re a Nigerian!Kapish???
Chinansa Ukaegbu...didnt know u were related to monkeys....u re truly a tribalistic animal#Ode of Life#.
Where's Okija shrine?
Where are the baby making factories?
Where do they manufacture fake drugs?
Where do they manufacture fake designer clothes?
where did kidnapping start from?
where did 'ritualism' start from?
where did '419nism' start from?
....ur guess is as good as mine!
Linda Ikeji, u should be ashamed of urself for allowing all these tribalistic comments on ur blog. U were quick to condemn Oshiomole during the "go and die" incident, but approving all these tribalistic comments on ur blog doesn't make u any better than him. U shld be using ur blog to promote peace and unity for mankind and not allowing all these hate comments because u want traffic on ur blog. If you like don't post this comment but at least u'll see and read it and hopefully do what is right. I rest my case!
Atleast dem no kiil their mother for money ritual like igbos...NB: research shows that Igbo land was fulll of monkeys before the existence of the igbo pple,that means the monkey gives birth to the igbos.....pls did is not a joke! Igbo 4 life!!
Dear Admin, Please kindly approve my comment. Much Love xoxo
I know this aderoju guy! he was born nd raised in UK, he had also lived in GERMANY.... he's got a brother named adeoye, thier father is also .. OMG!!! they are Bammeke's of IJEBU REMO i know this entire family!!....
Watever.. they re blood sucking elements....
DEADEVIL
Stupid people, you keep calling yoruba as if Igbo people don't do worse. At least they have not used their mum for money ritual
Please Linda, do not post inflammatory tribal, religious and insulting comments. Let us be decent and show maturity and tolerance for the sake of One Nigeria.
all of u saying nonsense about these couple are crazy, you guys never come out and see watin oyinbo did to ur country, you better uncover ur faces so all of u can see clearly, Carry go jare, God will empower u to make the jail. ur families that does carry series of vehicle come home, WHERE U THINK THE MONEY IS FROM????
Linda...its really disturbing the hate laced comments i see everyday in this blog bw some ethnic groups. I think as a journalist there should be some form of social responsibility on your part to make sure that comments not related to the post or somehow delve into xenophobic comments should not be posted...how can you possibly pre approve these hate comments. Nigeria is at the precipice but i believe that its your responsibility to use this medium of yours to effect change especially towards national unity as against what i see here. pls pls pls lets not encourage Nigerians to spew hate towards each other...the country is already difficult as it is.
Yoruba ppl na only mouth them get cos I know understand why they will catch you when be say na Motto of 600k Naira only the boy buy...... Cos him mouth no fit close
all you tribalistic people need help!
you guys are so annoying!
these type of people exist in every tribe, please stop the mediocrity, its very silly!
We always claim that we have culture but while Our elders are still alive we see our culture going into extinction. What can we say of the time early people used to display their products with just price tag and anyone passing by,interested in the products would just dropped the money there and pick the items.
I am sure this couple has relatives and parent, instead of scolding them for the evils when it first started, they prefer to clap for them but today nemesis catches up with them.
It's heaven better you people rain enough abuse on the Yorubas perhaps we will trace our steps back and parents will try and teach there children good morals and how to respect and protect their family and country names.
I pray coming generations will not curse this generation.
All this Igbolick people make una shaaarrraaapppp. we're more far better than you. We do G runs , una dey do ritual , we do international fraud , una dump heads dey end up una lives for local game ..
We do claim we have culture but that culture is going into extinction while our elders are still alive. I remember learning from history that farmers used to leave there products with price tags and any interested buyer would just dropped the cash and pick the equivalent products without the owner there.People used to sleep without closed doors or just used mats to cover the windows.
But nowadays people build houses,put iron doors,put burglary proof, put electric wire on the fences, in fact put Military police ( not even mobile Police) and OPC, yet in broad day light they are robbed, maimed, killed, raped and even used for rituals while everyone watches. Yet we say we have culture.
I like it when you people rain all manners of abuses on we Yorubas perhaps when Our leaders, that clap for their Children who use millions of naira to buy wines and make the hard working ones stupid in the eyes of the society, find out that they are rejected from outside, they will try to put their house in order.
I am sure this couple have relatives and friends who clapped for them when they first made their million pounds but nemesis has catched up with them.
If you are out there and also indulge in this wicked business, learn from this or if you like continue, Well "Wa ba Olorun Nibe". He will wait for you there.
@Igor The level of situation has gone out of hand. We cant be compared to the likes of USA. So if we insult our president its becos we know he truly deserves to be insulted. Can US students go on strike for a month? Not to talk of 5 months. And talking about tribalism i am totally saddened. If you ever condemn any of your brothers in diff tribe. Be it Igbo. Yoruba. Hausa. Then what should be said of a Russian who is a racist. Im a yoruba guy but most of my pals are the igbos. Should I be tagged an outcast cos of that? Everything begins at home. Linda's blog is home. Lets say it out all here even if people from different countries are reading listening or watching. They have their probs to sort.
Fact remains we are all NIGERIANS. The crime was committed by a Nigerian, whether igbo yoruba or hausa. We are damn too shameless.
heheheheh when an Igbo man commit, he is evil but when a yoruba man commit we will start hearing things like stop being tribalistic. Issorite. When I was growing up I used to like yoruba people but when I started mixing up with them in school, I noticed the burning hatred they had for Igbos for reasons I dun know. And they dont hide their hatred, imagine someone telling you that he hates Igbos and you are Igbo what does the person expect from you, love? I tire o.
Igbos like money but they work hard and earn it via honest means. Not by stealing peoples funds.
what a shame
FOR GOD SAKE THIS FORUM HIS MEANT TO BE FOR MATURE MIND NOT IMMATURE PEOPLE WHO THINK THERE TRIBE IS MORE SUPERIOR THAN THE OTHER, WHEN A CRIME IS BEEN COMMITTED BY NIGERIANS IN DIASPORA, WHAT WE LOOK FOR IS A NAME, WHICH WE EASILY TAG TO HIS TRIBE, NEXT WE STARTED UTTERING VITUPERATIVE WORDS TO SUCH TRIBES, UNITED THEY SAY WILL STAND, DIVIDED WILL ALWYS FALL, IS DIS HOW WE PLAN TO UNITE & REBUILD OUR GR8 NIGERIA WHICH IS DILAPIDATED AND ON THE VERGE OF EXPLODING. WHERE THERE'S GOOD THERE IS BAD. HERE ON DIS BLOG WE READ ABOUT NIGERIANS WHO BREAK RECORDS, MAKE NAME BOTH 4RM YORUBA, IGBO, HAUSAS & OTHER TRIBES. MY FELLOW NIGERIAN LET US ALL SHUN TRIBALISM WAR HERE ON DIS BLOG AND OUTSIDE.
You guys turning linda's spot to grind ur axes should desist. IGBOs and Yorubas are one if you do not know. ON SUNDAY NA, ALOT OF UNA WEY DOING THIS WILL GO TO CHURCH OR CALL URSELVES CHRISTIANS. CHRISTIANS MY FOOT!
IGBOs AND YORUBAs GROW UP! Dont revert Nigeria back to the dark era of civil war.I DONT LIKE THE HATE I PERCEIVE HERE.
Remember when Kanu Nwankwo and Oladimeji Lawal scored GREAT GOALS we rejoiced as one NATION. Let it continue to be so PLS.
Lol...he dey pain U...learn d job n make ur doe asshole
This is such a shameful act from Nigerians in the UK. can't even watch BBC news @ 10 anymore without the fear of these useless people embarassing and spoiling the reputation we young, intelligent nigerians have made for ourselves. first its adebolajo and co and now these two yoruba people. please people have mercy and try and earn a honest living. Living abroad is not easy at all as we need to contend with racism and discrimination and yall are just making things worse
Another shameful act by Nigerians. na only una? first its adebolajo and co now is fraudsters. please, some of us are trying to earn a honest living here in the UK and your constant illegal activities is making it extremely difficult......Nigerians are constantly becoming lunchtime office discussion topic.....find it difficult to defend the people if we continue to appear on BBC news @ 10. we have enough to worry about including racism and constant discrimination so please e so ewe agbeje yin mowo as you're not doing anyone any favours
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