Conman jailed for lottery scam

%VIRTUAL-SkimlinksPromo%A fraudster nicknamed "Fizzy" because of his love of champagne has been jailed for eight years for conning vulnerable pensioners out of their life savings with a bogus lottery scam to fund his millionaire's lifestyle.

For seven years, Frank Onyeachonam ran the UK operation of a global scam which was orchestrated from his native Nigeria and involved hundreds of perpetrators in several countries, detectives suspect.