Cousins Jailed for ‘Easy Money’ Identity, Phone Fraud

Two fraudsters took an opportunity to make easy money, becoming embroiled in a syndicate that duped telco customers into providing details to order phones they never received. Dilpreet and Manjinder Singh were recruited by the scam’s orchestrators but provided a vital service for the syndicate, a court has been told. The cousins will spend six months in prison after being sentenced in the Brisbane District Court on June 21. They had earlier pleaded guilty to fraud, attempted fraud and obtaining identity information.  Other syndicate members pretended to be Optus, Telstra and Vodafone employees, cold-calling customers and offering new devices at discounted prices....