Union at heart of bogus lotto
Fraudster Frank Onyeachonam spent so much of his loot on champagne that he was nicknamed Fizzy.
He netted an estimated £30million with lottery scams, convincing victims they’d won a windfall but first had to pay bogus fees and taxes, often via Western Union.
The Nigerian national living in London, then 38, was jailed for eight years in 2014 after being found guilty of fraud by an Old Bailey jury.
In 2015 accomplice Godwin Nwaofor was jailed for seven years.
Also Nigerian, he lived in a luxury flat in London Docklands and drove rented Audis, Mercedes and BMWs.
The pair would spend months, sometimes years, befriending victims to persuade them that they were genuine lottery employees.