Facebook scammer sent to prison
rossparry.co.uk Picture shows Caroline Oates who faked her own death has been jailed jailed at Pontefract mags court. The twenty-one-year-old defrauded customers of nearly �3,000 after selling wedding dresses on the internet but never sent out the goods, When customers confronted her, she pretended to be a family member and initially told them she had been taken into hospital, and then later that she had died.
A Facebook scammer from South Kirkby who took thousands of pounds worth of cash with her online wedding shop has been jailed.
Pontefract Magistrates’ Court heard on Wednesday Caroline Oates, 21, formally of Mill Lane, sold items but never sent the goods. When people complained she pretended to be another family member and told the angry customers she had died.
She pleaded guilty to charges of fraud by false representation last month.
Oates was jailed for 26 weeks.
See next’s week’s paper for the full story.
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