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Angela Bamford has been jailed for five years.By Emmaline Stigwood
GoldCoast.com.au
A MOTHER who defrauded her friends by spruiking fake Gold Coast property investment schemes to fund her gambling addiction was yesterday jailed for five years.
Angela Bamford, 41, appeared in the Brisbane District Court and pleaded guilty to six counts of fraud.
The court was told between 2005 and 2007 Bamford took advantage of friendships she had forged to get six victims and their families to give her about $340,000 on the promise of high returns in a variety of schemes.
Prosecutor Dennis Kinsella said most of the payments were followed by trips to the casinos where Bamford gambled away most of the money.
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