Fraudsters cloning police phone numbers in bank card scam after cases in Gravesend and Maidstone
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Updated: 12:57, 14 February 2021
Residents have been urged to beware of a bank card scam where criminals attempt to fool victims by cloning police phone numbers.
Officers have received at least six reports of this nature over the past three weeks from people living in Gravesend and Maidstone.
Criminals have been attempting to fool victims by cloning police phone numbers. Stock picture
Potential victims were contacted by someone claiming to be from Holborn police station in London.
The scammers would claim the victims bank card had been used fraudulently and attempt to get their account details.
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A bogus policeman has tricked a pensioner out of more than £15,000.
The fraudster told the victim, who is in his 80s, the money was needed for a police operation.
The pensioner was conned over the phone
The householder in Dover was telephoned on Wednesday by a man claiming to be from Hammersmith Police .
The trickster said officers needed help catching criminals and gave him a number to ring if he wanted to check the call was legitimate.
The victim called the number, but spoke to another fraudster who convinced him to transfer two payments totalling more than £15,000 into an account as part of a purported police operation.
Updated: 11 Feb 2021, 10:11
A MUM who faked cancer to swindle more than £52,000 from well-wishers to splurge on holidays sobbed as she was jailed today.
Nicole Elkabbas, 42, claimed she needed to pay for life-saving ovarian cancer treatment - then splashed donations on her lavish lifestyle.
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Nicole Elkabbas, 42, posted a pic claiming to show her stricken in hospital - but was from a previous operation to remove her gallbladderCredit: PA:Press Association
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She splurged on football tickets and gambling and took six trips to Spain for treatment Credit: INS News
Elkabbas, of Broadstairs, Kent, set up a GoFundMe page to rake in thousand of pounds in donations before funnelling the funds into her own account.
Cancer faker Nicole Elkabbas jailed after Gofundme scam
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Updated: 16:44, 10 February 2021
A fantasist cancer faker who pocketed £50,000 of donations to fund a gambling addiction has today been jailed.
Nicole Elkabbas, 42, from Broadstairs, spent well-wishersâ money on jaunts abroad, hotels, restaurants and almost £4,000 on a box at Tottenham Hotspur after gambling £63,000 in a year.
Nicole Elkabbas
The former Harrods fashion consultant baited almost 700 victims by posting a bogus picture of herself in a hospital bed on GoFundMe in 2017.
Handing Elkabbas a two years and nine months prison sentence, Judge Mark Weekes told the fraudster her allegations were pure wild fantasy and a deliberate deceit.
The Leader previously reported that the incident saw the bomb squad deployed and the area cordoned off. Anthony Collins was later arrested and appeared before Magistrates Court on January 30. A spokesman for Kent police since said: Detectives from the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate have charged a man after a suspicious package was sent to a Covid-19 vaccine production plant in north Wales. The item, which was not a viable device, is reported to have been received at the facility, in Wrexham, on the morning of Wednesday 27 January 2021. Anthony Collins was arrested by Kent Police officers in Chatham the following morning.