Five years jail for phone scam fraudster

A Wolverhampton man has been jailed for tricking elderly residents into handing over their life savings after a West Midlands Police investigation uncovered the phone scam.Sunmuklal Patel ran a ’courier fraud’ scheme targeting pensioners across Wolverhampton and Staffordshire. The 47-year-old, of St. Marks Road in Chapel Ash, tricked victims into handing over bank cards and PIN numbers, having posed as a police officer claiming their bank accounts had been hacked.Between 2 Septe