Romanian Migrants pretending to be deaf

More scams from migrants pretending to be deaf to defraud deaf people and their charities. Romanian kids and women in ‘deaf and mute charity scam’ using fake UNICEF forms.

Romanian women and children are being used to operate a ‘mean and calculated’ charity scam on the streets of Manchester. People have handed over cash after being taken in by fake UNICEF charity donation forms – with some fraudsters pretending to be deaf and mute.

The con was highlighted at Manchester magistrates’ court when Marin Leventica, 20, was locked up for six weeks. Leventica, of Randolph Street, Longsight, had admitted two counts of fraud committed earlier this month. The court heard she lives with an uncle who supports her. District Judge Paul Richardson told her: “It’s not just a question of the money you defrauded.

It means that people will be less willing to give to genuine charities. “I see no alternative but an immediate custodial sentence for these offences. I think the public’s disgust has to be marked and others have to be under no illusion how seriously courts view this type of offence.” Helen Veitch, prosecuting, said police had watched Leventica approach men carrying a clipboard with the phoney forms claiming to be collecting on behalf of the children’s charity.


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