A former acid house rave kingpin has been sentenced to 20 months for using a bizarre home-built machine to pilfer £500,000 (USD $630,350) from banking customers.
Southwark Crown Court charged 53-year-old Tony Muldowney-Colston in October after an investigation that began in January. He pleaded guilty to nine counts of possessing an article for use in fraud, and two counts of making or supplying an article for use in fraud, and was sentenced last week. Muldowney-Colston had created a machine that enabled him to fool customers into thinking that he was their banking provider,
said the Metropolitan Police. He used the device to gain access to £500,000 in customer accounts in a crime spree that police officials said affected hundreds of people across the UK.
...the machine enabled him to change the apparent age and gender of his voice, and could also play pre-recorded bank messages.
