A UK national visiting New Zealand, who police say scammed Kiwis out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, won’t be leaving the country anytime soon.
Jack Dylan Hennessy, 26, faces three years and three months in prison over his involvement in a fake Police scam that emerged earlier this year.
The scam involves people being cold-called by people posing as Police officers under the guise of asking them to help in a “covert Police operation.”
Victims are conned into withdrawing thousands in cash, to be collected in person by a fake officer. According to police, Hennessy took $337,700 in cash from Aucklanders.
Detective Senior Sergeant Craig Bolton, from Auckland City’s Financial Crime Unit, says investigators worked quickly to track down the man appearing at victims’ front doors.