Glamorous sisters played banker after an elderly couple were duped out of £36,000 by telephone scammers posing as police.
Sheree Morgan, 25, and younger sister Sophie, 21, from Nelson, Lancashire, allowed their bank accounts to be used by fraudsters to stash stolen cash.
The money was stolen from Cardiff pensioners Cyril and Joyce Rose after a con artist rang them pretending to be a policeman and told them they needed to transfer their savings to avoid falling victim to an eastern European bank card scam.
Cyril, 86, and Joyce, 84, were contacted by a man pretending to be a Metropolitan Police detective sergeant in January 2014.
He urged the elderly couple they needed to transfer their money into various accounts "for their own security."
The caller even pretended he knew of a list of previous transactions Mr and Mrs Rose had made, initially rattling off eight incorrect withdrawals before correctly guessing a £50 shopping bill at Asda.
The couple were persuaded to go to their local Leeds Building Society and make transfers from their account and makes others from their HSBC savings totalling £36,140 to other accounts.
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