#WhatsApp SCAM with CHARLENE CARASCO

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Charlene Carasco was jailed for 12 months

Charlene Carasco, 30, repeatedly contacted her former boyfriend on Whats App, begging him to pay cash into her bank account to fund her ransom.
A court heard cops were twice called to investigate the kidnapping but on both occasions found deceitful Carasco safe and well.
Her shocking lies were finally exposed when officers discovered the sex fiend did not exist.
Carasco was jailed for 12 months at Northampton Crown Court after pleading guilty to two counts of blackmail and one charge of fraud.
Sentencing, Judge Adrienne Lucking said: "Your contact with your ex-boyfriend triggered a large police enquiry and wasted police resources."

“The defendant said she owed a lot of money to a gangster who was holding her against her will”

Victoria Rose, prosecuting

The court heard Carasco met her ex via an online dating website in 2011 and they entered a relationship.
But the couple split in August 2013 and remained friends.
In the summer of 2014 Carasco asked her ex-boyfriend for small sums of money such as £10 or £20 to help pay her bills.
In January 2015, Carasco then contacted him again on WhatsApp asking if he could transfer a large amount of money to her bank account.
Victoria Rose, prosecuting, said: "The defendant said she owed a lot of money to a gangster who was holding her against her will.
"She said she had been locked in a car and was being taken to a cash machine to check if the money was in her account."
He then transferred £700 to her account, followed by another £300.

Carasco admitted the three charges she faced

The court heard Carasco contacted him again the next day and said she had been cut on her arm and claimed the gangster was doing "horrible things" to her.
Ms Rose added Carasco told her former partner the only way to stop her being assaulted was to transfer more money so he handed over another £300.
The ex-boyfriend then contacted cops who found Carasco at her home in
Northampton and she told officers she had no idea why he had reported a kidnapping.
Scheming Carasco then contacted her ex-boyfriend ten days later and told him her wallet and bank card had been taken by a man called Sean who had demanded £1,500 be paid before she was released.
Ms Rose continued: "Carasco said Sean was threatening to physically hurt and sexually harm her and, if the money wasn't paid, would sell her to a man who would do disgusting things to her."

Carasco obtained a signifiant sum of cash off her ex

The ex-boyfriend was told not to involve the police but to transfer the cash, the court was told.
Ms Rose said he spoke to Carasco on the phone and she was "crying saying 'I'm ok please send over the money'". The ex-lover then transferred over a further £300 and then rang the police.
Northamptonshire Police deployed several officers to find Carasco and she was eventually found at a family address.
She was arrested and officers discovered all the messages to her ex-boyfriend had been sent by Carasco and Sean did not exist.