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Family fraudsters jailed


A pair of brothers and their parents pocketed £2m from bogus health card websites

Richard Young

Posted 16 May 2023 | JoTS Online


Content Tags:  Updates|Crime|National


UPDATES: A National Trading Standards investigation has led to lengthy jail sentences for a family who made more than £2 million by tricking consumers into paying for free EHICs through misleading websites and aggressive refund practices.

A family team of scammers who made more than £2m from setting up misleading websites that tricked people into paying for European Health Insurance Cards (EHICs) have been jailed for a combined 21 years following a National Trading Standards (NTS) investigation.

Brothers Damien Sartip Zadeh (32) and Dale Sartip Zadeh (35) of Sunderland deceived consumers into needlessly paying for EHI...

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