Swindon student found guilty of money laundering over sophisticated phone scam
Mohamed Sharif, a student from Swindon, was found guilty of money laundering. The 24-year-old was given £250 to pass his bank details on to the gang who were running the frauds. This information was then used to set up nine new bank accounts in his name which received money from an unsuspecting victim in his 70s. Now police are warning other students in Wiltshire to beware of being recruited by the gangs behind similar scams. On June 10 in 2018, the victim was called by a member of the gang pretending to be his bank, Nationwide. They told him their system was under attack from hack...
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