Father-son Duo 'ghost Brokers' Scammed Drivers Out Of ₤ 60k. A daddy and child duo from Leicester scammed chauffeur out of more than ₤ 60,000 by selling useless car insurance plan that left lots uninsured. Ilyas Rauf charged unsuspecting consumers as much as ₤ 300 for invalid policies, which left drivers dealing with potential fines and lorry seizures, while secretly sharing countless pounds with his boy Amer Ilyas. In the fraud, bogus insurance coverage intermediaries will claim they can get you car or home insurance coverage as a discount. They may either hand over a phony policy or a genuine one, which they subsequently cancel to keep the refund for themselves. Alternatively, they take out a genuine policy with inaccurate info to bring the premium down - which would likely leave it void ought to you try to make a claim. Rauf, 51, made ₤ 61,763 from August 2016 to January 2020 by providing created work letters to protect reduced premiums for his victims. Between September 2019 and June 2020, he shared more than ₤ 11,000 of his profits with his 28-year-old son, who was given the task of recruiting victims through social media. The dad and son were sentenced at Leicester Crown Court for fraud offenses The National Crime Agency previously shared a series of mocked-up Instagram ads providing '100% legit insurance guaranteed to beat any rate' to show drivers what to watch out for An investigation found he utilized letters from a business called Eastern Catering to fraudulently acquire no claims discount rates. He wrongly declared his customers had actually worked for the company for numerous years without crashes or insurance coverage claims. It was later on discovered that the address Eastern Catering was registered to was the same utilized by Rauf to sell the phony policies.