Postwoman on the con

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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A SWANSEA Valley postwoman conned her neighbours out of £10,000 by fooling them into thinking they had entered into a money-making pension fund, a court has heard.

Margaret Rees, of Wern Road in Ystalyfera, also told her next door neighbour she needed £2000 to pay drug dealers who had threatened to burn down her home.

Neath magistrates heard how the 51-year-old had also forged signatures of guarantors to secure loans and then stole their mail so they would never find out about the scam.

The court heard the web of deceit lasted almost seven years before she was caught out when a letter from the loan company arrived at the home of one of the unaware guarantors.

Prosecutor Andrew Fouracre told the court the crimes began in 2002 when Rees went for a loan with the Post Office’s Communication Workers Friendly Society (CWFS).

“As part of the loan application she was required to have two guarantors,” he said.

“She forged their signatures and they had no knowledge they were being used.”

“This continued until March 2008 when one of the guarantors, Marion Dixon, received a letter from the loan company saying she owed £851.68,” he said.

“The defendant had also been offering members of the community the chance to invest in a Post Office pension scheme where they would double their money in a six-month period.

“She did this to her neighbours who invested £10,000,” he said.

The money was invested in December 2007 but the couple are yet to receive it all back although the court heard Rees was repaying in monthly installments.

Another charge related to an incident last month when Rees told neighbour Nesta Davies, whose house adjoins Rees’, drug dealers had threatened to burn down her house unless they were given £2000.

Rees pleaded guilty to three charges of fraud, including one against CWFS, and two charges of stealing mail.

She also asked for eight charges of stealing mail to be taken into consideration.

Martin Probert, defending, told the court: “She feels the guarantors would have been happy to have signed the documents and that there wouldn’t have been a problem if she’d only asked.

“She didn’t think she’d fall behind with repayments so they would never have had to know.

He added: “She knows she has done wrong and there are civil proceedings in place to get the money back.”

Magistrates decided their sentencing powers of 12 months imprisonment were insufficient and Rees will now appear at Swansea Crown Court on Monday, May 11.

[k979aaa]

I was conned into a pension scheme by force yet i have no redress but some do rather well living of my back and others :cfo & :lfo and he too :mfo !.

[andy2007]

A last! They're taking a case seriously, and looking for a proper sentence for her. Hopefully, it will work as a deterrant, to stop others interfering with the Mail.

[norbert]

I was conned into a pension scheme by force yet i have no redress but some do rather well living of my back and others :cfo & :lfo and he too :mfo !.

and your mate the sight impaired caledonian chappie who doesn't always make the best decisions - he's already done one pensions fraud and planning to do one with the CWU pension to plug the public spending holes .
There's plenty of debt off the books with the likes of PFI etc too . Don't think Dithering Darling has long to go either . The EEC want cuts as well to cover for the b***ocks made by the bankers .

[k979aaa]

I was conned into a pension scheme by force yet i have no redress but some do rather well living of my back and others :cfo & :lfo and he too :mfo !.

and your mate the sight impaired caledonian chappie who doesn't always make the best decisions - he's already done one pensions fraud and planning to do one with the CWU pension to plug the public spending holes .
There's plenty of debt off the books with the likes of PFI etc too . Don't think Dithering Darling has long to go either . The EEC want cuts as well to cover for the b***ocks made by the bankers .

The one eyed monster with vision? has yet too face the second coming of his nemesis the postmen and postwomen of this nation for we are more resolute than evermore!. Never has so many been betrayed by so few it is not just a fight for each and everyone of us but for our future and that of our children's!. We can only think of winning this war or look forward too a life of servitude and slavery in the uk by NEW LABOUR and it's minions :mfo and it's paymasters :cfo & :lfo and the new royalmail board (Donald brydon) it is not a sea change but a clearing of the decks for bigger guns and more of the same unrelenting punishment for all of us!. I SAY LET BATTLE COMMENCE.