Three jailed for stealing total of £568,000 from bank customers – Credit Connect

Three men from London have been sentenced to a combined 10 years and four months after stealing a combined £568,000 from victims by fraudulently posing as bank customers and gaining access to their accounts. The sentencing follows investigation and arrest by a specialist banking industry-sponsored police unit, the Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit (DCPCU). Between September 2021 and January 2025, Tai Buchanan, Wayne Field and Dashem Tesfamichael worked together to commit the fraud after obtaining stolen customer banking information online. Tai Buchanan, the son of Wayne Field, would recruit people to go into bank branches and impersonate genuine customers by using the obtained stolen information. The recruited accomplices would then attempt to gain access to customer accounts and withdraw cash directly if successful. Simultaneously, Field and Tesfamichael used stolen information to impersonate genuine account holders over the phone to gain access to their accounts. From there, they would steal money from the victims’ accounts. Field, Buchanan and Tesfamichael also used the stolen information to upload victims’ cards onto mobile phones in their control. These would then be used for purchases at shops. Through the police’s investigation, they found stolen personal and banking information of victims on devices belonging to
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