Camphone picture helps jail fraudster

File under not so smart. A fraudster has been jailed for five years after a photo - taken with a camera phone - of his baby surrounded by piles of money was used by police as evidence against him. The BBC reports.

The scam targeted cash machines outside supermarkets including ones in Beverley and Willerby in East Yorkshire.

"... The accused claimed the picture of his baby son surrounded by money was part of a Romanian tradition celebrating the christening of his child.

But the jury dismissed his claims and he was found guilty of conspiracy to clone bank cards. "

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