Ban for Wonga scam nurse

A nurse involved in a £3m scam on controversial payday lenders Wonga has been suspended from practice for just 12 months. Sherene Bascoe, 21, was part of a gang which exploited the company’s faulty website algorithms to make more than 19,000 applications using the same password ‘Bengali90’. The cash was then laundered through hundreds of bank accounts by the fraudsters while the unsuspecting victims were left facing paying the one per cent a day interest payments. Applications were made online…