Jail for the Covid scammer

A straight-A student who masterminded a ‘sickening’ coronavirus swindle against the most vulnerable members of the public has been jailed for 30 weeks. Mohammed Khan, 20, sent thousands of fraudulent texts and emails inviting unwitting victims to fill in their bank details in exchange for ‘a Covid-19 tax break’. The messages contained logos ‘remarkably similar to UK government websites so one would think it was from Her Majesty’s government’. The victim’s personal information was sent to the ‘clearly very clever’…