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Monday 08 June 2009 8:00 pm  |  Updated:  Friday 31 May 2019 12:42 pm

Fraudsters jailed over Aviva con

By: admindrupal

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A trio of conmen who defrauded five directors of insurance giant Aviva out of a combined £638,000 have begun their jail terms, Canada police said yesterday. The men used publicly available information from Companies House and a series of bogus bank accounts to fool call centre workers in India into revealing details of the directors’ life assurance policies.

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