Fraud couple return to old tricks with internet lies

Oct 12 2008 By Norman Silvester

FRAUD couple Justin and Evelyn Noble are up to their old tricks again with a new web of internet lies.

The odd couple, given life bans by eBay for flogging hundreds of non-existent mobile phones, have launched a bizarre bid to reinvent themselves online.

Both have set up Bebo sites telling people they are single and are looking for love.

Justin tells his new online friends he is a doctor while Evelyn claims she is going through a divorce.

She says: "I am in the middle of getting divorced from a marriage that lasted four years. I am now looking for a new man for fun."

Justin calls himself Dr Noble on his Bebo page but on dating site plentyoffish he claims to be a property developer with an HND in child psychology. He also claims to live in Marbella.

In a further twist the couple's latest victim revealed Justin told him Evelyn was a girlfriend called Kirsty Murray.

Alexander Arthur, 46, of Kirkcaldy, let the Nobles a flat in Motherwell in July but did not receive any rent and is almost £2000 out of pocket.

He only realised he had been conned when he saw the couple in the Sunday Mail two weeks ago.

He said: "Noble told me in an email he was a single dad to a little boy whose mother had died and needed the rent paid by the DSS.

"He came to view the flat with a woman he said was his girlfriend Kirsty Murray but when I saw the photographs of the Nobles in the Sunday Mail I realised Kirsty Murray was Evelyn Noble.

"When I contacted the DSS eight weeks after they moved in they told me they had never heard of Justin Noble and no claim had been made.

"Something has to be done about this pair because they are making people's lives a misery."

Two weeks ago we told how the Nobles duped record producer Harry Leckstein out of £1200 by renting him a villa which they do not own.

The London-based music guru had booked a six-week let on a house in Newton Mearns, near Glasgow.

In June another victim, Fatemeh Darvandzadeh, got a court order to evict them from her home in Newton Mearns.

The Nobles moved in last year but defaulted on most of the £1000-amonth instalments.

They even tried to sub-let it to another couple who they left £1000 out of pocket after claiming they were the owners.

In January 2007, the Nobles - then living in Milngavie - were charged over an eBay fraud which left hundreds of people without computer games for Christmas. Four years ago, they were accused of selling non-existent mobile phones for up to £250.

In January 2006, Evelyn admitted trying to defraud a building society in Edinburgh out of £415,400 by passing a dud cheque and was jailed for nine months.

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