TWO men who helped swindle more than £150,000 using fake credit cards have been jailed.
Jucius Marcinkevicius, aged 22, and Ruslan Dymarchuk, aged 21, were sentenced at Southwark Crown Court.
The two men were part of a gang which bought weekly travel passes with cloned cards that their bosses later sold on the black market.
Southern Trains lost £156,000 in the fraud which led to them limiting the amount card-holders without chip and pin could spend.
Lithuanian Marcinkevicious and Ukranian Dymarchuk were arrested at Honor Oak Park station on April 28.
The gang visited stations including New Cross Gate, Forest Hill and Sydenham over nine months.
Marcinkevicius and Dymarchuk, both from Stratford, admitted conspiracy to defraud at Southwark Crown Court.
Marcinkevicious claimed he earned £1 per ticket and a total of £2,000 by the time of his arrest.
He was jailed for 21 months while Dymarchuk received a 15-month sentence.
Judge John Price recommended both men be deported once they have served their sentences.
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