37-year-old was extradited to Blighty to stand trial
A Bulgarian phishing criminal who created fake versions of legitimate companies' websites as part of a £40m fraud has been jailed.
Svetoslav Donchev, 37, was extradited to stand trial at Southwark Crown Court in London, where he pleaded guilty to five counts of fraud. He was sentenced this afternoon.
Donchev, originally from the city of Pleven, created what prosecutors described as "phishing protection scripts" to be embedded on cloned websites of legitimate companies. The clones were then hosted on a server controlled by other criminals who would lure victims in by sending phishing emails.
"Donchev would not steal the bank details himself," said specialist prosecutor Sarah Jennings. "He would supply the tools for others to do so. He may have felt removed from the scams themselves, but the thorough police investigation and this successful p ..
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