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WOMEN WHO CONNED THE WORLD

JODY HARRIS

QUEEN OF CONS

Jody Harris was branded Australia’s greatest con woman by police – and for good reason! She pilfered hundreds of thousands of dollars from bank accounts across the eastern seaboard. She posed as an air hostess, doctor, psychiatrist and police woman while she befriended women and stole their identities in order to rob them. She even posed as a detective to pull over one victim in a ploy to get the woman to hand over her identity.

With the cash, she lived a lavish life buying designer clothes, accessories

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