Derek Moore and Julie McQuade were part of an organised criminal fraud that deliberately targeted vulnerable victims as old as 85 and got them to hand over tens of thousands of pounds.
Two callous fraudsters who teamed up to scam pensioners across Scotland out of £250,000 are facing jail.
The fraud totalled £252,800 and the offences were committed in Ayr, Dundee, Perth, Glasgow, Johnstone, Musselburgh and Lerwick.READ MORE: Two men arrested after bomb squad called to Lennoxtown amid 'suspicion package' In one incident Moore pretended to be a member of a bank's fraud team in Dundonald, Ayrshire, and convinced a 70-year-old man to transfer separate sums of £20,000 to two accounts.
In a separate charge, Moore admitted phoning an 83-year-old woman and getting her to attend the RBS branch in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, to withdraw £15,000, before travelling to Johnstone railway station where she handed over the cash to him.Moore further targeted a 76-year-old woman and her 75-year-old husband in Dundee and pretended to be a member of a fraud team from the woman's bank.
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