Six undergraduates were convicted of internet associated offenses by a Federal High Court judge in Abuja on Friday.
Quarshie Nnamdi, Emmanuel Ogbole and Charles Iwu were convicted by the vacation judge, Nkeonye Maha. Others are Usman Nuhu, Samson Ademoyegu and Sesan Adunmo.
Ms Maha convicted them and sentenced them to different terms ranging from three to six months in prison, with the possibility of N300,000 fines, after pleading guilty to all the charges proposed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) against them.
While sentencing the convicts, they were instructed by the judge to forfeit some of the goods that included, among others, laptops, phones retrieved from them during federal government inquiries.
Ms. Maha also instructed the convicts to sign a good behavior undertaking and never be engaged in EFCC or any other type of fraud within and outside the nation, adding that failure to comply would attract judicial sanctions.
She ordered the convicts to refund all monies obtained fraudulently from their victims.
Earlier, EFCC prosecutor George Chia-Yakua informed the court in June that the convicts had been in possession of Scanned FBI Logos and U.S. documents Naval seal.
The anti-graft agency also said the convicts were captured with papers allegedly signed by Lt. Gen. T.T. Luis Rodulf and the U.S. Army Judge, Fort Knox, among others, which they knew contained fake information.
Mr Yakua said that the offense contravened Sections 33 of the 2015 Cybercrime Prohibition & Prevention Act and Section 6 of the 2006 Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offenses Act.
However, the initial charges were substituted by the revised charges as submitted to the tribunal on Friday owing to the separate plea bargain between them and the EFCC.