Callous fraudster who tricked pensioners in £25k Virgin Money bank scam is jailed
dailyrecord.co.ukA callous fraudster who targeted an elderly couple in a brazen £25,000 banking scam has been jailed for 18 months. Paul McEnhill, 28, tricked Thomas Docherty, 73, and Margaret Baillie, 82, into transferring thousands of pounds.
Docherty, of East Kilbride, Lanarkshire, received a phone call from a man who claimed he was head of Virgin Money's CID department.
The caller told Docherty £5,000 had been swiped from his account and to get it back he would have to make a transaction to help Virgin Money identify a rogue employee who had stolen the cash.
The hoax caller then told Docherty to go to a bank branch and transfer £4,900 and say the money was for his granddaughter. Docherty was then told his wife's account had been targeted and ordered to transfer a further £9,500.
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