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A FRAUDSTER who stole thousands of pounds from elderly and vulnerable victims in Barnsley has been jailed.
Mohamed Chowdhury, of Haverhill Grove in Wombwell, targeted elderly people across the borough in a ‘courier fraud’ scam, with victims’ losses totalling thousands of pounds.
He called his victims between March and May last year, claiming to be from their bank or the police, talking to them about a fraud on their accounts.
A number of the victims were persuaded to give up codes for their accounts and then asked to place their bank cards into envelopes and leave them on their doorstep, where a courier would collect them to be used as ‘evidence’.