He defrauded his father of thousands of dollars. He faked his voice with bank calls
A British man has been jailed for withdrawing tens of thousands of pounds from his father’s bank accounts by faking his and his dead mother’s voice during phone calls to bank staff.
Months of nonstop fraud
- A complex police investigation found that over a 14-month period in 2017 and 2018, just months after his mother’s death, 42-year-old Daniel Cuthbert defrauded his father of more than £56,000 ($70,000) by calling his parents’ bank and impersonating his late father and mother.
- Audio clips revealed how Cuthbert faked his dead mother’s name on at least nine calls, and answered correctly when asked security questions by bank employees.
- According to prosecutors, Daniel Cuthbert’s father noticed some suspicious activity when checking his bank account, but was convinced that Daniel had nothing to do with it.
- However, the poor man soon learned that trusting his son was a very bad decision.
- In 2018, Cuthbert’s father was contacted by a construction company to inform him that he would lose his home due to late payments, as his son had taken several loans in his name and had not bothered to pay them back or at least inform his father about them. In the face of overwhelming audio evidence against him, Daniel Cuthbert admitted fraud by ‘false representation’ and was recently sentenced to two years imprisonment by a judge at Preston Crown Court.
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