Moses Ndano (43) was sentenced to six months imprisonment in the Springs Regional Court on Wednesday.
Captain Johannes Ramphora, spokesman for the Springs police, says the fraudster was sentence to three months imprisonment in terms of the identification act.
He will spend another three months in jail for producing fraudulent documents.
For possession of suspected fraudulent documents he received five years suspended for five years.
After serving his sentence he will be deported to his country of origin.
Ramphora says this comes after months of investigation during which accounts were being opened at furniture shops in Springs on credit.
Constable Frans Strydom and his team confiscated computers, a memory stick, false payslips and bank statements, bank cards and other documentation from his office.
Ndano had a false ID with him and an expired passport.
Ramphora says Ndano recruited people to open accounts at furniture shops with false payslips and bank statements, which he provided.
These recruits then had to sell the goods to a specific pawn shop in the CBD and the money gained was paid to the foreigner who in return, only sometimes, paid his recruits.
It was during one of these transactions that one of the couple Ndano recruited reported him to the police, because he never paid them.
His two accomplices was released from the Springs police cells on Wednesday and charges against them were dropped.
Ramphora says no evidence could be found against them.
Ndano will be spending his six months imprisonment at Modderbee Prison.
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