A fraudster who used a student loan phishing scam to steal nearly £400,000
from hundreds of victims has been jailed for four years.
Olajide Onikoyi, 29, of Hexagon Close, Manchester was a “key member” of a
cyber-crime gang that stole more than £1.5m in total from UK students, said
police.
He sent emails to students inviting them to update details on their student
loan account via a link to a bogus website. When the victim accessed the
site, he was able to gain unauthorised access to their bank accounts and
extract large amounts of money. Onikoyi, a Nigerian national, laundered