A TRAVELLING con man who emptied a north Cumbria pensioner’s account after tricking her into parting with her cash card and PIN has been jailed.
Tosif Aziz, 31, drove from Bedfordshire to the 81-year-old woman’s Wigton home in February, 2017.
After persuading her to hand over a card and personal number, Aziz “drained” her account as he returned South to his native Luton, splashing out on almost £800 worth of goods which included cigarettes and even a payment to an X-rated satellite TV channel. Further fraud attempts failed due to her account being empty.
“He is a travelling con man,” Gerard Rogerson told Carlisle Crown Court today (WED).
After police circulated a CCTV still of Aziz at the scene of one crime, he was recognised and brought to court. He admitted one theft offence and five charges of dishonestly making a false representation.
Recorder Ahmed Nadim heard Aziz – who has a prison address and was described as a “chancer” by his own barrister – was currently serving a six-year custodial sentence for frauds in the Luton and Somerset areas.
Imposing a consecutive six-month jail term for the Cumbria crime, Recorder Nadim told him: “You targeted a lady of mature years believing that she would be less likely to offer resistance to the fraud that you had in mind to perpetrate against her.”
