NEWARK — A 31-year-old Nigerian man with multiple aliases received a sentence of three years in prison Wednesday for his part in a $1 million "phishing" scheme that involved the fraudulent use of government email accounts to purchase office equipment, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman said.

Abiodun Adejohn, who also went by aliases including Olawale Adeyemi and Abiodun Ade Jon, was also ordered to pay more than $630,000 in restitution. He has been in custody since his arrest in Arizona Sept. 24, 2013, and had previously pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud conspiracy.

Using phony emails and Web sites designed to look like official government pages, such as that of the Environmental Protection Agency, Adejoh and his co-conspirators obtained email usernames and passwords from government employees.

Armed with this information, the scammers ordered toner cartridges and other items from vendors and had the merchandise shipped to addresses in New Jersey and elsewhere, where they would be repackaged and shipped to addresses in Nigeria controlled by Adejohn and the other conspirators, where it was sold on the black market.

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