Account Takeover Fraudster Receives Confiscation Order

Updated:Mar 2010

Account Takeover Fraudster Receives Confiscation Order

Chinedu Ebigbo, aged 31 of Bowater Road, Wembley, HA9 received a confiscation order for £11,724.13 at Southwark Crown Court on the 21st of July 2009. He was given 3 months to pay the order or he will have to serve 9 months imprisonment as a default sentence. Even if Ebigbo serves the default sentence, the confiscation order will still remain until it is paid in full.

On the 6th of February 2009, Ebigbo was sentenced to 4 and a half year's imprisonment for two counts of conspircay to defraud.

Between April 2007 and September 2008, Ebigbo and others obtained personal information and data from various open resources on the internet. Then using this information, they would take over bank accounts.

Ebigbo and his accomplices would use this information to obtain credit cards fraudulently.

The cards would then be used to make large cash withdrawals using counterfeit passports as secondary identification. Through this fraud, they managed to steal £224,000.

On the 6th of February 2009, Ebigbo was sentenced to 4 and a half years imprisonment for two counts of conspiracy to defraud.

Darren Holmes, aged 31 of East London who was one of Ebigbo's accomplices was sentenced to two years imprisonment on the 17th of October 2008 for conspiracy to defraud. Holmes was given a confiscation order on the 22nd of December 2008.

The Metropolitan Police Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit carried out the criminal investigation in this case with the London RART having responsibility for the financial investigation. Both units worked together to bring this operation to a successful conclusion.