Three sisters who committed large-scale fraud across a number of cities including Leicestershire have been jailed.
The sisters spent more than £62,000 using card details from stolen till receipts.
Lyndsey, Emmiline and Sarah Burdon, made 150 fraudulent transactions in restaurants and shops across Leicestershire, the North West and Yorkshire.
The fraudsters stole till merchant receipts from restaurants, spas and hotels. They then used these to spend other people’s money on luxury goods, holidays and services such as haircuts.
The women would provide the stolen card details when asked for payment, claiming their cards were damaged.
While the women kept some of the items they bought fraudulently, on other occasions they would return the items to the stores and request a refund. They would then put their own payment card into the machine so that the money would go into their own personal bank accounts.
The group received more than £16,000 worth of fraudulent refunds from doing this.
Lyndsey Burdon, 36, was jailed for 26 months; Emmiline Burdon, 29, was jailed for 22 months and Sarah Burdon, 40, was given an 18-week sentence.
The judge said it was “quite obvious you had disadvantaged childhoods”, but added: “You can’t live off that for the rest of your lives.”
The judge said they had to be “pretty brazen about what they did”.