{"id":5557,"date":"2018-12-17T23:51:46","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T23:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/tony-colston-hayter-brighton-fraud-machine-maker-jailed\/"},"modified":"2018-12-17T23:51:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T23:51:46","slug":"tony-colston-hayter-brighton-fraud-machine-maker-jailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/tony-colston-hayter-brighton-fraud-machine-maker-jailed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Colston-Hayter: Brighton fraud machine maker jailed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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An “audacious criminal” who built a homemade device to help him defraud hundreds of people has been jailed.<\/p>\n

Tony Colston-Hayter, 53, used the machine to trick people into thinking he was their banking provider. <\/p>\n

The Met Police said Colston-Hayter, also known as Tony Muldowney-Colston, had obtained more than \u00a3500,000 from the accounts he accessed.<\/p>\n

Colston-Hayter, from Brighton, was jailed for 20 months at Southwark Crown Court on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

A search of his home uncovered a hard drive containing details of passports as well as 32 credit cards.<\/p>\n

He had also accessed names, addresses and email addresses and phone numbers from members of a private club in London, according to a Met spokesman. <\/p>\n

Police said Colston-Hayter had used the machine to alter his voice so it would match the age and gender of his victims when he called the banks.<\/p>\n

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The machine, known as a semi-automatic social engineering bank telephone machine, also played a pre-recorded message from banks to its customers. <\/p>\n

Officers also found a spreadsheet of his victims’ details, and a flowchart showing how to commit a mobile phone Sim card swap fraud, the Met said.<\/p>\n

Colston-Hayter admitted nine counts of possessing an article for use in fraud and two counts of making or supplying an article for use in fraud on Monday. <\/p>\n

Following his arrest in June, he told officers he had created the device with the intention of accessing bank customers’ accounts containing a total of more than \u00a3500,000. <\/p>\n

Colston-Hayter was described by Det Insp Philip McInerney as “an audacious criminal” who said the scam had affected hundreds of people with “the potential to affect many more”.<\/p>\n

“He shows no concern for the welfare of any individual or organisation, and has made it clear he will use a range of methods to achieve significant financial gain for himself,” Det Insp McInerney added. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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