An international cyber-scammer and Instagram star who plotted to launder more than $300 million over the course of 18 months was this week jailed – and he must pay back more than $1.7 million to his victims.Abbas and his pals used business email compromise (BEC) attacks to steal money from a number of companies around the world, as well as private individuals, and even an unnamed English Premier League football club.They typically involve hijacking legitimate email accounts, or impersonating legit accounts, to send out bogus invoices and fool marks into sending wads of money to crooks.Abbas bankrolled his playboy world via a number of cybercrime campaigns, such as a pair of operations in 2019 in which he and another online scammer conspired to launder approximately $14.7 million (£12.6m) stolen from a bank in Malta, and the aforementioned scam targeting an English Premier League team and another UK company.Abbas was also involved in the theft of approximately $992,857 (£851,022) from a New York law firm in 2019, and also admitted in his plea agreement that he had conspired to scam a Qatari individual seeking a $15m loan to build a school."