New photo Crook jailed after building machine to copy victims’ voices in £500k phone banking fraud

A CONMAN who built a machine to copy victims’ voices in a £500,000 telephone banking fraud has been jailed.

Tony Muldowney- Colston, 53, constructed it out of a music synthesizer to dupe banks and their customers.

Muldowney-Colstons machine used a music synthesizer to duplicate the sound of victims’ voices

Cops said the device, the size of a small suitcase, altered his voice so it would match the age and gender of victims.

It also played a pre- recorded message from banks so customers he called would think he was a genuine employee.

Muldowney-Colston is said to have targeted hundreds with the machine and attached card reader.

Dubbed the King of Acid House after organising drug-fuelled raves in the ’80s and ’90s, he was jailed in 2014 after a gang planted a hacking device in a bank to raid accounts.

Tony Muldowney- Colston, 53, pleaded guilty to 11 charges relating to his machine

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The trickster, of Brighton, this week got 20 months after admitting 11 charges relating to his voice machine at Southwark crown court.

Det Insp Philip McInerney, of the Met Police Cyber Crime Unit said: “The scam affected hundreds of people and had the potential to affect many more.”

Following the sentencing of Muldowney-Colston, he said: “This should send a clear message to anyone considering committing crimes of this nature that we have the tools and methods to identify you and bring you to justice.”

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