A BANK worker who helped scammers fleece millions from rich customers has been locked up for five years.

Molly Jones, 24, of Bohemia Chase, Leigh, searched records at Lloyds Bank for bulging bank accounts that were rarely used before passing the details to con artists.

The fraudsters then posed as customers to order new debit cards and set up transfers of hundreds of thousands of pounds at a time.

Jones was jailed alongside six men who now face a total of 38 years inside. Three of the men, Courtney Ayinbode, Tajinder Galsinh and Benjamin Omoregie, carried out a similar role to Jones.

Det Insp Sarah Ward, of the Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit at the City of London Police, said: “Ayinbode, Galsinh, Omoregie and Jones flouted the trust placed in them by their employees.

“These sentences send a strong message that fraud does not pay. Banks and law enforcement take financial crime very seriously and we will continue to work in partnership to investigate and bring offenders to justice.”

Jones and Omoregie admitted their roles in the scam before a trial at the Old Bailey but the other men denied fraud and money laundering charges.

The court heard money was laundered through a series of bogus companies before being moved offshore to prevent it being recovered. One victim lost more than £750,000 after one of the gang’s imposters used a fake driving licence in his name to set up two transfers over three days.

Jones took part in an attempted fraud on an account with a £3m balance. She set up a payment of £486,000 - supposedly for a house purchase - after an imposter came into her branch of Lloyds TSB.

The other defendants were handed the following sentences: Benjamin Omoregie, of no fixed address, four years; Courtney Ayinbode, 29, of South Norwood, five years; Kushveer Raulia, 25, of Hayes, West London, seven years; Parvez Hussain, of Romford, east London, six years; Tajinder Galsinh, of no fixed address, six years; Eddie Lakes, from Brentford, seven years.