Rapping fraudster who boasted he was the ‘real don’ with ‘bare honeys’ is jailed for trying to scam pensioners out of savings
Jahangir Khan, 23, and associates slammed by judge for 'deliberate and cynical exploitation of vulnerable people'
A WANNABE gangster who boasted he was a ‘real don’ has been jailed for scamming pensioners.
Jahangir Khan, 23, tried to fool elderly victims into handing over their credit cards and PIN numbers in a fraud that would have made an estimated £100,000 if it had succeeded.
Khan, from Perry Barr, Birmingham, and his three accomplices were only successful in conning people out of £17,000, but all four were convicted at Birmingham crown court.
The shameless group called thousands of vulnerable people around the country during a three-month period, pretending to be police officers.
Sometimes calling in the middle of the night, they would say their bank accounts had been compromised.
When their targets – some of whom were in their 80s and 90s – tried to ring their banks, they would unknowingly be put through to other members of the fraud gang, who would trick them into giving away their pin numbers.
Finally, fake couriers would arrive at the houses of their victims to pick up the cards which were then used for lavish shopping sprees.
Sentencing the group, Judge Roderick Henderson said: “I am glad there are members of your families here.
“The kind of people you were involved in cheating were people just like your aunts, uncles and grandparents.
“This was a cold-blooded fraud. Most crime we deal with involves people in the heat of the moment doing stupid things.
“This involved sustained, deliberate and cynical exploitation of vulnerable people.”
When police arrested Khan – who was caught on CCTV withdrawing money from his victims' accounts – they found selfies of him posing in designer clothes and flash jewellery paid with for with the stolen cash.
They also found a cringe-worthy rap he had written about himself, in which he describes himself as ‘da real don’ who gets ‘bare honeys’.
Other lyrics, written in street slang, include: “I put my foot down in my Audi and manz will be like vroom vroom and thats wen i get da pum pum.
“Yeah I told u before my names Jango and u drive past in my Lambo.”
Det Con Dan Chappelow said: "You can't fault his imagination.
“Khan clearly saw himself as a respected kingpin of the criminal world, in his mind he was 'da underground's finest' who drew respect from men and a magnet for adoring women.
“The truth is that Khan is a coward who spent his time phoning elderly people and tricking them into parting with bank cards and PIN numbers with scare stories that their accounts had been compromised.”
Khan was three years and two months behind bars after admitting two counts of fraud, while pal Mohammed Miah, 22, of Camden, north London, was jailed for three years and three months.
Khan's girlfriend Arafa Begum, 22, of Nechells, Birmingham, was sentenced to eight months in prison suspended for 21 months.
And 25-year-old Motahir Rahman, of Camden, got 10 months in prison suspended for 21 months, despite having already served time for identical offences.
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