Conman can’t remember all the times he used footballer’s card

A forklift truck driver used Manchester City star Riyad Mahrez’s bank card so often in a £176,000 spending spree that he cannot remember all the transactions. Mohamed Sharif, 32, spent a month blowing a fortune on designer clothes, gambling and a champagne fueled holiday in Ibiza before Mahrez realised the card had been taken. The winger was targeted after an ‘unknown person’ called up Barclays Bank, posing as the £200,000-a-week Etihad favourite footballer and ordered a replacement card in his…

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