article_snippet.sent: A Nationwide branch manager conned elderly customers out of elderly customers life savings by setting up bogus standing orders for hundreds of thousands of pounds.
article_snippet.sent: Abiola Balogun, 22, Gideon Boateng, 19, Tevin Campbell, 20, Joshua Clark, 20, Rebecca Jack, 21, Patrick Reddington, 20, and Christiana Tella, 19, were allegedly paid around £300 each for letting the fraudsters use the fraudsters bank accounts.
article_snippet.sent: Prosecutor Jonathan Polnay described the scam as a ‘nasty little fraud’ that ‘deliberately targeted elderly people with the aim of clearing the scam out of the scam life savings’.
article_snippet.sent: It wasn’t a particularly sophisticated fraud
article_snippet.sent: but It’s a fraud which, were It not detected, would have netted the fraudsters hundreds of thousands of pounds and caused a loss in life savings to the victims.
article_snippet.sent: this fraud was allegedly carried out from May 2012 to May 2013 and many of the victims were elderly or vulnerable, four were in this fraud 80s and another three were over 65.
article_snippet.sent: Undoubtedly there were other people involved in this fraud as well who recruited people to allow people accounts to be used in this fraud.
article_snippet.sent: The money was siphoned through ’ accounts before The money was withdrawn in cash.
highlights_snippet.sent: Manager accused of siphoning funds out of elderly customers' accounts .
  