Ayodeji John Kareem, 38, Vincent Alonge, 31, and Babatunde Fafore, 41, all plead guilty on July 8 to charges stemming from their arrests in August 2010. The men employed a phishing scam in which they crafted emails that appeared to originate from their victims banks and linked to bogus web-pages where the victims were asked to confirm their online banking and/or credit card details. The scam, designed to pilfer large amounts of sensitive data such as online banking passwords and credit card information, succeeded grandly. The trio had compromised 900 bank accounts and obtained information on more than 10,000 credit cards.
Source: https://threatpost.com/three-uk-men-serve-13-years-phishing-071211/75422/