AFTER fraudulently ordering goods worth £79,000 from Next in an online shopping spree, a 40-year-old fraudster’s next location is prison.
Adeshola Adegite was sentenced at Basildon Crown Court to 18 months in jail after pleading guilty to opening 434 fraudulent online Next accounts as well as possessing a fake Next identity card.
And a confiscation order was made against Adegite, ordering him to pay back the £79,000 spent.
The jobless father-of-four set up online credit accounts using a variety of identities, telephone numbers and email accounts to order items.
Adegite would arrange for the goods to be delivered to homes across London and Essex including in Bexley, Bromley, Lewisham and Greenwich boroughs.
If challenged by the person who signed for the order, Adegite, from Dagenham in Essex, would produce a false Next identification card; state the items had been delivered to the wrong address before taking the package back.
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