CONMEN operating in Pinner and Edgware cheated a computer company out of £100,00.

Nnandi Ewulum, 27, of Watermeadown Lane, Fulham, and Bren Agu, 35, of Shaw Close, Bristol, repeatedly infiltrated Dell's telephone-ordering service with stolen credit cards to order equipment.

The computers were then sold for a massive profit with the proceeds being sent to Nigeria.

The pair were both found guilty of the eight-month scam at Inner London Crown Court.

Judge Austin Issard-Davies jailed Ewulum for three years and Agu to nine months.

On May 27, last year, goods addressed to Peter Kollington were delivered to Ewulum's home and Mr Kollington's signature was faked.

And a credit card number used to pay for another order from an address in Stag Lane, Edgware, on August 11 matched details saved in Ewulum's phone.

Details from that order could also be linked to an order for Village Way, Pinner.

A three week trial heard the swindle was eventually stopped after police were tipped off by courier company DHL.

Peter Grieves-Smith, prosecuting, said the fraudsters, armed with genuine credit cardholders' details, placed a string of orders.

Dell never suspected anything because decoy addresses were provided, and many victims never noticed the amounts appearing on their bills.

Mr Grieves-Smith said: "Goods would be ordered using the credit card details of an individual who would not know his personal financial details had been compromised.

"The goods would be delivered to a variety of addresses using many different names.

"The prosecution suggests that some, perhaps most, of the proceeds of the conspiracy were sent to Nigeria.

"Fraud is sometimes thought of as being a victimless crime.

"The reality is that losses caused by fraud are passed on by the financial institutions or companies in question to their customers who then have to pay higher prices."

Mr Grieves-Smith said it was not known who stole the victims' details or called Dell.

But text messages containing credit card numbers were retrieved from mobile phones found at Ewulum's home and his girlfriend's in Stag Lane.

Ewulum's home was searched and a computer containing lists of credit card numbers, names and e-mail addresses was seized.

Police also linked orders to Agu and he was arrested at his home with someone else's credit card.

Ewulum and Agu, denied one count of conspiracy to defraud between January 1 and August 31, last year.