The Mohammed family 'conned £1.3million out of scores of pensioners'

One of the con artiste, Zoe Latiff

A family of fraudsters conned £1.3million out of scores of pensioners and bought sports cars, jewellery and Rolex watches – as well as a house in Dubai, a court heard.

The Mohammed family cold-called 42 elderly and vulnerable victims posing as bank workers and persuaded them to hand over their savings. The conmen boasted about taking money from ‘losers’ but were rumbled when one of them used the landline at their family shop in Glasgow and police traced the call back to them, a court heard.

Among their victims was a retired couple from Wiltshire who lost £84,000. Prosecutor Rupert Lowe told Bristol Crown Court: ‘The declared income of the Mohammed family was extremely modest but they had the trappings of very significant wealth. 'They hired Ferraris and Lamborghinis and purchased a Mercedes in cash, which was sitting on their drive.

They bought expensive watches, jewellery and designer bags, they indulged in high-value gambling and travelling and they purchased a house in Dubai.’ The cold callers would claim to be bank workers and tell their alleged victims they were being defrauded and encourage them to transfer their savings into another account.

The money was then moved between accounts before being withdrawn. When the conmen were arrested at a home in Glasgow in November 2014, police found 41 mobiles, 57 sim cards and dozens of phone numbers scrawled on a wall. Read it all here....................

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