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#293428 by TerranceBoyce Sat Apr 30, 2016 10:13 am
In the post I made yesterday the scammers were major league drug smugglers. In this example they were funding terrorism.

http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Devon-Cornwall-pensioners-victims-Syria-8216-bank/story-29200775-detail/story.html?

April 29, 2016

Devon and Cornwall pensioners among victims of Syria ‘bank of terror’ fraud gang

Hundreds of thousands of pounds could have been channelled into the hands of ISIS terrorists after a gang conned pensioners – including aging victims from Devon and Cornwall - out of their life savings in a £900,000 fraud linked to a "Bank of Terror" in Syria.

The victims, the oldest of whom was 94, were from Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Bedfordshire, London and Kent and the fraud was said to have had a "catastrophic" impact on many of them, a court has heard.

The juries were not told that the con was uncovered by the Met's Counter Terrorism Command (SO15) after a separate terror probe found suspicious payments into a bank account of someone who is now in Syria.

"The callers, who were part of the fraud, would pretend to be either from banks or to be law enforcement officers – police officers."

He said the con artists would claim there had been suspicious activity on the victims' bank accounts and trick them into transferring money into other accounts.

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