Victoria Ahmed, 26, and Amitab Ali, 30, both from Rochdale, paid for hotel rooms and meals and even bought a car during the £25,000 scam.
Between September 2011 and March 2012, the pair used other people’s card details, which had been texted to them, to buy goods online and over the phone. They paid for car insurance and parts, and their accomplice Jade Wasley agreed to have the items delivered to her house for a fee.
Over six months, Ahmed and Ali also hired cars, bought a Honda car from a salesman, stayed in hotel rooms, bought food and drink, paid for taxi fares and Ahmed’s home phone bill. In total, over £22,000 was spent on other people’s credit cards.
In November 2011, Ahmed, Ali and a second man Tariq Mohammed, 34, defrauded an insurance company out of £3,367 during a ‘crash for cash’ insurance fraud.
Ahmed claimed her Lexus had been involved in an accident, and both Ahmed and Ali, who claimed to be the person who crashed into the Lexus, contacted the insurance company and they paid her £1,710 for the damage.
Mohammed claimed that the car was being stored at his business in Rochdale and provided her with a hire car. He charged the insurance company £1,657 for his ‘services’.
Ahmed, of Jarvis Street, Rochdale, and Ali, of Brimrod Lane, Rochdale, both near the town centre, earlier pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit fraud and fraud by false representation. Ahmed received an 18-week custodial sentence, suspended for two years, and was ordered to carry out 150 hours’ unpaid work, while Ali was jailed for a year.
Tariq Mohammed, of John Roberts Close, Rochdale, pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation and was given a four-month custodial sentence, suspended for two years, and ordered to carry out 200 hours’ unpaid work.
Jade Wasley, 25, of Thomas Street, Littleborough, Rochdale, pleaded guilty to fraud by false representation and received a 12-month community order. All four were sentenced at Minshull Street Crown Court on Monday.
