Fraudster jailed after raking in £300k by sitting students’ exams and completing their coursework

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Fraudster jailed after raking in £300k by sitting students' exams and completing their coursework.

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A fraudster has been jailed after he pocketed £300k by sitting exams for students and completing coursework for them.Shahid Adnan of Lysander Close, Everton, pleaded guilty and was sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court today.

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The 43-year-old was caught after a Computer Forensics student handed in a USB drive containing suspicious coursework to Dr Tom Berry from Liverpool John Moores University in February 2023.Dr Berry from LJMU's School of Computer Science and Mathematics, found that the previous owner of the pen drive had inadvertently copied a host of files onto this pen drive, including student usernames, passwords, coursework submission dates, and financial information.

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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say The evidence was then passed on to Merseyside Police who launched an investigation.Detectives found Adnan was able to log into student accounts and complete assessments for them, with evidence found of payments to him from students, and of Adnan living a lifestyle well beyond his...

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