Sharmarke Ahmed (pictured), 34, from the Wandsworth area of London, pretended to be a cop when he phoned the victim, who is in her nineties, on her landline on March 5.
Heartless fraudster Matthew Howarth, 32, of Atherton, Greater Manchester, conned his old school friend Tom Lee out of thousands of pounds by telling him he had terminal brain cancer.
Brazen criminals have broken into the construction site of a Motor Neurone Disease centre being built in honour of inspirational rugby league star Rob Burrow.