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Tesco Bank conned out of £25,000 by Inverness teenager


By Court Reporter

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A YOUNG woman managed to fraudulently obtain £25,000 from a bank by pretending to be her mother, Inverness Sheriff Court has been told.

Sarah MacDonald was just 17 when she successfully pretended to Tesco Bank that she was her own mother by producing a council tax bill and other documents.

She fraudulently completed transactions between February 1 and April 20, 2017.

Now aged 19, MacDonald, of Hazledean Guest House in Lochalsh Road, Inverness, admitted forming the fraudulent scheme to induce the bank to issue the sum of £25,000 to her mother’s account.

Once the money was paid out the court heard she then persuaded her mother that the sum had been paid into her account in error and induced her to transfer the cash into her own account by fraud.

As a first offender, solicitor Duncan Henderson told the court that it would be necessary to obtain social work reports on MacDonald before she could be sentenced for her crime.

On that basis, the court agreed to defer sentence until August 8.


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