9yrs for pounds 2m credit fraud.Byline: DON MACKAY Donald Mackay, (born March 19 1940 in Perth), is a Scottish former football player and manager. As player He was a goalkeeper and played for Forfar Athletic, Dundee United, and Southend United during his playing career. THE man who masterminded Britain's biggest credit card fraud Credit card fraud is a wide-ranging term for theft and fraud committed using a credit card or any similar payment mechanism as a fraudulent source of funds in a transaction. The purpose may be to obtain goods without paying, or to obtain unauthorized funds from an account. was jailed for nine years yesterday after swindling pounds 2million. Sunil Mahtani, 26, couldn't cope with his merchant banker girlfriend earning more money than him. He fleeced 800 card holders and spent the cash on her. Judge Simon Smith said: "It needed a high level of expertise which you misused in various ways." Mahtani, of Watford, Herts, had a job processing Handling and processing jobs in the computer. payments for the Heathrow Express train. He downloaded 8,790 card numbers and passed them to accomplices Shajahan Miah and Shaidul Rahim who cloned them. If they had used all the numbers, they would have netted pounds 19million but undercover police caught them. They also found child porn on Mahtani's computer. Miah and Rahim, both 26, of Enfield, were jailed for four years. |
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