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09 Apr 12
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Plumstead man Andrei Osipau jailed for online gambling fraud
By Nina Massey http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk
A MAN who made nearly £80,000 from online gambling after using fraudulent passports, identity cards and false utility bills to open various online accounts has been jailed.
In the first prosecution of its kind, 35-year-old Andrei Osipau, from Plumstead was convicted for committing what is known in the industry as a 'Bonus Abuse'.
This involves stealing other people's identities to open online betting accounts and taking advantage of bonus bets being offered by companies.
He also used internet payment organisations to transfer the criminal proceeds from the online betting account to open bank accounts under false names.
Osipau of Royal Herbert Pavilions in Gilbert Close was apprehended following a joint investigation by detectives from the Met’s Gambling Unit, Project Amberhill, and the UK Gambling Commission.
The scam was identified on February 26 last year when an online betting company received two UK passports bearing different names but the same image within 12 minutes of each other.
The matter was reported through the Gambling Commission who passed it onto the Gaming Unit for investigation.
Officers initially believed the passports were sent from two addresses in Hove and Eastbourne.
However, further investigations established that Osipau had masked his own IP address in order to prevent his actions being discovered.
At his address they discovered more than 5,900 scans of passports, identity cards, utility bills and bank statements relating to people from countries including the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Osipau was sentenced to three years imprisonment at Southwark Crown Court on April 3.
He had pleaded guilty to five counts of fraud, eight counts on possession of articles for use in fraud and one count of transferring criminal property at an earlier hearing.
Head of the Met's Gaming Unit Detective Inspector Ann-Marie Waller said: "This joint investigation with the Gambling Commission demonstrates the Met's commitment to combating high tech organised crime.
“The sentence imposed by the judge today should deter anyone considering committing crime involving stolen or compromised identities."
By Nina Massey http://www.thisislocallondon.co.uk
A MAN who made nearly £80,000 from online gambling after using fraudulent passports, identity cards and false utility bills to open various online accounts has been jailed.
In the first prosecution of its kind, 35-year-old Andrei Osipau, from Plumstead was convicted for committing what is known in the industry as a 'Bonus Abuse'.
This involves stealing other people's identities to open online betting accounts and taking advantage of bonus bets being offered by companies.
He also used internet payment organisations to transfer the criminal proceeds from the online betting account to open bank accounts under false names.
Osipau of Royal Herbert Pavilions in Gilbert Close was apprehended following a joint investigation by detectives from the Met’s Gambling Unit, Project Amberhill, and the UK Gambling Commission.
The scam was identified on February 26 last year when an online betting company received two UK passports bearing different names but the same image within 12 minutes of each other.
The matter was reported through the Gambling Commission who passed it onto the Gaming Unit for investigation.
Officers initially believed the passports were sent from two addresses in Hove and Eastbourne.
However, further investigations established that Osipau had masked his own IP address in order to prevent his actions being discovered.
At his address they discovered more than 5,900 scans of passports, identity cards, utility bills and bank statements relating to people from countries including the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Osipau was sentenced to three years imprisonment at Southwark Crown Court on April 3.
He had pleaded guilty to five counts of fraud, eight counts on possession of articles for use in fraud and one count of transferring criminal property at an earlier hearing.
Head of the Met's Gaming Unit Detective Inspector Ann-Marie Waller said: "This joint investigation with the Gambling Commission demonstrates the Met's commitment to combating high tech organised crime.
“The sentence imposed by the judge today should deter anyone considering committing crime involving stolen or compromised identities."
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Head of the Met's Gaming Unit Detective Inspector Ann-Marie Waller said: "This joint investigation with the Gambling Commission demonstrates the Met's commitment to combating high tech organised crime"
So wot if the people exist................wife girlfriend stepson (ect) ?
you'll get 3 years for the bonus abuse and another 2 years for impersonating a woman
Should have been 9 months....................BUT HE GOT THE BONUS
Can the multiple-account Pricewise arbers sleep easy in their beds?
well now the High St bookies will shop suspected multi id arbers to the law as well as limit restrictions.Topping must be beaming this morning.
Hes allready been locked up in 2 different prisons...........
i was just looking at his photo; looks like he didn't spend any of his 80 grand on haircut or wardrobe
nothing really changes Hove has always been the the no1 place for racing frauds and dodgy racing goings on
3 years is an absolutely outrageous sentence for not that serious a crime. 'Bonus abuse' indeed, what a crock.
THERES PEOPLE AT THIS MOMENT GETTING FREE PKTS OF MCVITEES DIGEST BISCUITS VOUCHERS,BECAUSE THEVE RUNG CUSTOMER SERVICES UP AND TOLD THEM THEIR BISCUITS ARE BROKEN ,I THINK THEY BREAK THEM ON PURPOSE
I THINK THERE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO SAY THEVE GOT WHIPLASH WHEN THEY GO ON THE BUMPING CARS AT THE FAIR
AND THE ONES WHO TRY TO GET A REFUND OFF THEIR HOLIDAY COMPANY ,BECAUSE THEIR HOLIDAY WAS SPOILED BECAUSE THERE WAS NO TOILET ROLL IN THE HOTEL TOILET
Are these the same people who can't find the "caps lock" key on their keyboard ?
they want to jail Paddy Power for pretending to be a bookmaker.
And a jockey is proven to be handing information to his family, and friends, that he will be pulling a horse to stop it winning and the Police do feck all.
Some corrupt sod steals from some large gambling entities and gets three years.
Others defraud those that bet their mounts and get a smile, a suspension, and work offers in racing.
Nice
Some corrupt sod steals from some large gambling entities and gets three years.
Others defraud those that bet their mounts and get a smile, a suspension, and work offers in racing.
Nice
NO BUT THEIR THE SAME PEOPLE WHO COMPLAIN ABOUT THEM
The GC will be seething at the met interrupting their meal.
YES THANK YOU APPOLO,IM JUST THE SAME ,I DONT KNOW WHAT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT FIRST ,BUT THANK YOU
WHEN I GET MY DHS MONEY PUT IN THE BANK I ALWAYS SEEM TO FEEL A LITTLE BETTER
THATS THE GOOD NEWS BUT I GOT A DOUBLE WEEK LAST WEEK AND ITS ALL GONE
IVE HAD TO WATCH BEN HER TODAY BECAUSE IVE NO MONEY FOR A BET ,AND I WAS GOING TO BACK THE WINNER OF THE CHARIOT RACE
ROFL..........elise...........he didnt spend any of the £80k on a haircut or new wardrobe + 2 years for impersonating a woman!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can think of two posters that description could fit,one of whom has a photograph viewed by many on here.
I can think of two posters that description could fit,one of whom has a photograph viewed by many on here.
criminal proceeds LOL
shame about the sentence. I wouldve considered staking him imo.
shame about the sentence. I wouldve considered staking him imo.
btw is the same as when you get the girlfriend to open an account for you but its me placing the bets?
I've just read an article in the local paper today which reports a PHC (mini cab) driver as having sexually assaulted two girls - a year apart - and he was given community service. The two charges were heard together.
This guy gets three years.
Wellillbefukked.
This guy gets three years.
Wellillbefukked.
3 yrs
organised crime.
fcuking unreal.
pity he didnt get away with it, u do less for manslaughter!
organised crime.
fcuking unreal.
pity he didnt get away with it, u do less for manslaughter!
Offences involving coin of the realm always worse than offences against the person ilwab...................sums up the whole job lot of modern life.Lord Lucan would be doing 2 weeks community service if he resurfaced..........old Ronnie Biggs a prime example of offending the coin.
alias has it about right, when you can have predators wandering about picking up kids and they jail someone for shafting the likes of vic chan the law is a mess, they should have given him a laddies loyalty card and a free spin on the fobt
Elise your earlier observations could perhaps reveal the offenders user name (s)...................Dark Rosaleen..........and I will leave the other open to speculation re-dodgy haircut/wardrobe but the word fraud narrows the field imo.
aye perhaps manslaughter was a stretch but some of the sentences being handed out for certain crimes ar ebeyond my comprehension. im no expert on the law but people getting time for seemingly meaningless offences and yet u kill a human being and youre back on the streets within 6/7 years in some cases, its a sad world we live it with very little justice imo!!
im not condoning this man taking identites either and he deserves to be punished but 3 yrs for nicking bonuses ffs. the law really needs to have a long hard look at itself!80k, he must be a bit of a shrewdie to boot
im not condoning this man taking identites either and he deserves to be punished but 3 yrs for nicking bonuses ffs. the law really needs to have a long hard look at itself!80k, he must be a bit of a shrewdie to boot
Not at all stretching it ilwab,bloke got 5 years just last week for manslaughter in E.Anglia,read it on online newspaper.Human life has little value it would seem compared with finance.
Btw I dont know if you remember a thread I put up a couple of years ago.
A thieving toerag stole a ladies bag and used her debit card to place a string of bets online.She didnt cancel the card,presumably because she was elderly and did not compute the procedures.
He only got caught when she queried where all the money was coming from into her current account,turned out he had a great run of winners but withdrew all the money back to her account.
A thieving toerag stole a ladies bag and used her debit card to place a string of bets online.She didnt cancel the card,presumably because she was elderly and did not compute the procedures.
He only got caught when she queried where all the money was coming from into her current account,turned out he had a great run of winners but withdrew all the money back to her account.
yeah jokers!!
3 irish lads murdered a polish bloke going to work last yr 'for the buzz'.
one got life and the other 2 got the best part of 10-12 yrs each.
this is NOT severe enough. these CU NTS will be walking the streets again someday. they should be put down like dogs.
3 irish lads murdered a polish bloke going to work last yr 'for the buzz'.
one got life and the other 2 got the best part of 10-12 yrs each.
this is NOT severe enough. these CU NTS will be walking the streets again someday. they should be put down like dogs.
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Btw I dont know if you remember a thread I put up a couple of years ago.
A thieving toerag stole a ladies bag and used her debit card to place a string of bets online.She didnt cancel the card,presumably because she was elderly and did not compute the procedures.
He only got caught when she queried where all the money was coming from into her current account,turned out he had a great run of winners but withdrew all the money back to her account.CoolCoolLaugh
10 Apr 12 01:59
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Btw I dont know if you remember a thread I put up a couple of years ago.
A thieving toerag stole a ladies bag and used her debit card to place a string of bets online.She didnt cancel the card,presumably because she was elderly and did not compute the procedures.
He only got caught when she queried where all the money was coming from into her current account,turned out he had a great run of winners but withdrew all the money back to her account.CoolCoolLaugh
but withdrew all the money back to her account.
a sort of modern day robin hood, or as thick as shoite?
a sort of modern day robin hood, or as thick as shoite?
The judge did use words to that effect elise,pretty sure it was in Gloucestershire or nearby.
Just heard on the news that the top earners dont pay any tax.Why hasnt this loophole been closed before.
looks like the geek was not playing slots/bingo/poker and roulette with their indian gifts.Alaways wondered what happened if you won with a free bet .
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