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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’.
Heartless fraudsters posed as police to fleece thousands from elderly
The victims were in Derbyshire and South Yorkshire
The fraudsters posed as a police officer (Image: Derby Telegraph)
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Fraudsters posed as police officers to defraud pensioners in Derbyshire and South Yorkshire out of thousands of pounds.
One member of the gang would phone the victims saying there had been fraudulent activity on their accounts and that they should leave their bank cards and PIN numbers in an envelope outside their homes due to the Covid pandemic.