Conwoman is jailed
A conwoman who racked up an £8,000 bill when she used a doctor's stolen credit card details to check in to a luxury hotel and then have computer equipment sent to her has been jailed for 13 months.
Jaspreet Gill, aged 23, who has a history of credit card cons, was described as "professional fraudster" for a scam which cost victims a total of £13,000.
Wolverhampton Crown Court heard Gill contacted a firm called Medical Spa Studios saying a phone bill was unpaid and asking for credit card details.
She used details to book into the Fairlawns Hotel, Aldridge, between September 8 and 9, telling staff to expect deliveries of parcels addressed to a doctor.
Staff became suspicious and said they would not release parcels until they had proof they were ordered legitimately. Gill was arrested, and initially said she had been put up to the fraud by another woman.
Gill, of Redhouse Street, Walsall, admitted seven counts of fraud and asked for a further 14 to be taken into consideration and was sentenced yesterday.
Other victims had details stolen, bringing the total cost of the scam to £13,000.
Last year, she got a 10-month sentence, suspended for two years, after raising nearly £2,000 selling non-existent goods on the internet to fund a drug habit. She conned bank details out of a Sutton Coldfield man and used them to get around £2,000 of goods and services.
She advertised mobilephones, Westlife tickets and store vouchers on Ebay and asked victims to pay directly into her account. Customers never got items because Gill did not have them to sell.
Recorder Mr Jonathan Gosling said: "You are a professional fraudster. You booked yourself into a hotel, and quite a luxurious one at that, and you ordered expensive goods. You knew exactly what you were going to. This was a well planned and carefully executed fraud."
