Elderly couple conned into laundering money for gang

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10658238/Elderly-couple-conned-into-laundering-money-for-gang-that-stole-their-life-savings.html

An elderly couple who gave away their life savings to fraudsters were threatened with arrest after they unwittingly began laundering money for the gang.

Over the next three years they sent around £200,000 through Western Union but received nothing in return.

Over the next two months they made almost 100 transfers of amounts up to £500, effectively laundering money taken from other victims.

They were always waiting for the telephone call. Holidays were cancelled, their car was sold.
Their daughter added: "They were changing the telephone number without telling us so we couldn't contact them. Then they sold the house without telling us"