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The other fraudsters

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Anh Nhu Nguyen The serial conman pretended his wife and 12-year-old son died and was comforted by Prince Charles. The 53-yearold, born in Vietnam, pocketed £11,270. He was jailed for 21 months in February. Mohammad Gamoota The business student trawled through a list of dead and said his father was Abdeslam Sebbar, 77. Gamoota, 31, claimed almost £7,000. He was jailed for 1 months in June. Elaine Douglas and Tommy Brooks The illegal immigrants posed as survivors after the Government said any illegal resident could stay. The couple, from Jamaica, plucked two names from the list of the dead and claimed they lived with them. They were jailed for three years in July. Joyce Msokeri The 47-year-old was jailed for four-and-a-half years after falsely claiming to have lost her husband to get handouts of £19,000. Msokeri, from Zimbabwe, travelled 14 miles to the tower to convince charity workers she had survived.

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