Kuraby’s Ismail Mohamed Sheik Tayib pleads guilty to 53 offences

A Kuraby man who fleeced almost $35,000 in products from a high end retail store with dark web credit card details has been jailed.

A Kuraby man who fleeced thousands of dollars in products from a high end retail store with dark web credit card details has been jailed.

Ismail Mohamed Sheik Tayib, 22, defrauded David Jones $34,500 worth of merchandise over a six-month period last year, Brisbane Magistrates Court heard.

Police prosecutor Senior Constable David Barnes said the items included clothing and shoes which police located.

Tayib sourced credit card details from the dark web to order products from David Jones.

He said Tayib, who had a nine page criminal history, ordered expensive items from David Jones and had them delivered to his address in another person’s name. The seized items would be returned to David Jones, he said.

The court heard Tayib ventured onto the Dark Web to obtain the credit card details.

The dark web is part of the internet hidden from search engines like Google and which often contains illegal activity.

Tayib today pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud, possess tainted property and cannabis and 49 counts of obtaining identification information to commit an indictable offence.

Tayib’s lawyer Daniel Hannay said his client learnt the fraud technique by older men in the Brisbane Somali community.

“They put pressure on him to start with to undertake these acts,” he said.

Mr Hannay said Tayib went on to do it for himself motivated by financial pressures due to assisting his family.

The court heard he suffered from post traumatic stress disorder and paranoia and had been assaulted in prison.

Magistrate Noel Nunan declined to make a restitution order after learning Tayib, who worked at a grocery store, had a $12,500 debt with the State Penalties Enforcement Register.

“ Whilst I accept you’re remorseful and one hopes that you’re not going to repeat this, given your track history I haven’t gotten a lot of faith in that,” he said.

Mr Nunan sentenced Tayib, who has already spent 133 days in custody, to 18 months jail with a parole release date of May 6.

Originally published as Kuraby’s Ismail Mohamed Sheik Tayib pleads guilty to 53 offences