Rather than evil genius, the antics of Braden Strowthers and his crew of two are more like criminally-minded versions of Laurel and Hardy.
Scammers steal more than £1billion a year in the UK, an amount that suggests we are up against an unstoppable army of skilled fraudsters.
Meanwhile, his hapless partners in crime — his brother Ross Strowthers and Tyrone Daley, both also from Peterborough — were found guilty of enabling these crimes by helping launder the stolen money. Braden persuaded victims to hand over banking information and used these details to access the victims’ accounts and move money into accounts he controlled. He would do this by contacting the banks, disguising his voice and pretending to be the elderly account holders. Braden used this ruse to defraud victims out of £80,459 between 2017 and 2019.
Bank investigators identified a pattern of calls from Braden posing as customers and reported it to the police. DC Calvert says: ‘We were surprised Ross got involved for a small boat to impress his social network.’ DC Calvert says: ‘This meant that Lloyds Bank and our unit were able to investigate them and learn more details.’
‘This sentencing should warn anyone who believes they can benefit financially from committing fraud that they will be caught and brought to justice.’
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