(Danville, Va.) — A Danville man who enrolled students in online university programs as part of a scam has been sentenced to more than nine years in prison.

The U.S. Attorney General said 30-year-old Tyrone Dwayne Young was also ordered to pay more than $1.1 million in restitution to the U.S. Department of Education and eight schools, including Liberty University in Lynchburg.

According to the U.S Attorney General, Young pleaded guilty in November to wire fraud, student loan fraud, and aggravated identity theft. That charge carried a mandatory sentence of two years.

Starting in the spring of 2016, prosecutors say Young started using personal identifiers of family members and friends to enroll them as students in online universities. Fraudulent student profiles were created to enroll more than 60 people in online courses in order to obtain federal student loans in their names.

The victims never completed classes and either failed or withdrew, in most cases after the student loan money had been distributed.

Young targeted low-income individuals by posing as a higher education worker and promising free government money and other benefits if they provided personal information for enrollment purposes.