Flashy Cars, Wads of Cash Get Two Nigerians Jailed in UK

Two members of a London-based Nigerian cybercrime group have been jailed after stealing more than £1 million. They ran their scams by obtaining thousands of business email addresses and passwords - which they used to divert payments away from legitimate companies to themselves. The pair regularly posed for photographs of themselves with wads of money, expensive watches and champagne.

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