Wolverhampton man pleads guilty after series of bank frauds that netted £25,000 from across the UK
A Wolverhampton man has pleaded guilty after a series of frauds at bank branches across the UK which netted £25k.
Specialist fraud officers carried out the investigation.
Joseph Mason, aged 47, of Boundary Way has been charged with nine counts of fraud and appeared before Wolverhampton Magistrates Court on Friday where he pleaded guilty to all of the offences.
He will be sentenced on December 12.
It comes after around £25,000 was fraudulently taken from nine bank branches, including in Birmingham, Stoke-on-Trent, Oxford and Liverpool, between February 5 and April 9 this year.
The Proactive Economic Crime Team (PECT) is a nationally networked and co-ordinated capability focused on disruption of large scale and high harm threats, and organised crime groups committing fraud.
There is advice and support available for people who think they have been victims of fraud at https://www.westmidlands.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/fa/fraud/.
