The 40-year-old was caught tailgating a friend through the barriers at St Paul’s Station on May 2.
A Transport for London (TfL) officer later discovered he was using a train driver’s nominee pass that did not belong to him.
Adebukola Anifowose, a revenue control officer for TfL, told the court in a statement she spotted Bassong at 1.08pm “pretend to tap an Oystercard enclosed in a white wallet before tailgating through the wide-aisle gate behind another male”.
At Wimbledon Magistrates’ Court on Friday (October 30), Mr Bassong was convicted of travelling without a valid ticket.
He was fined £220 and ordered to pay the £7 fare, £250 in prosecution costs, and an £88 victim surcharge.
Ms Anifowose said Mr Bassong produced a TfL staff nominee pass when challenged, but "system checks later confirmed that the pass did not belong to him and had last been used in October 2025."
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The friend with him later told the TfL officer he had given Mr Bassong the pass because he was "experiencing financial and personal hardship due to a divorce and unemployment."
It was later established the pass belonged to the friend’s ex-girlfriend, a Docklands Light Railway employee.
Mr Bassong did not enter a plea and was convicted in a Single Justice Procedure hearing.
He has been given 28 days to pay a total of £565.