A DUNFERMLINE woman used her daughter’s name to open accounts with catalogue companies, running up a bill of over £6,000.

The offence came to light when the daughter had disclosure checks done when going for promotion at work.

Lindsay Currie, 52, of Macbeth Road, appeared for sentencing at Dunfermline Sheriff Court.

She previously admitted that between 1st January and 11th March at Colliston Road, Dunfermline, she pretended to be her daughter and opened accounts with Argos, Fashion World Mail Order and Lowell Grattan.

She entered into purchase agreements with them and obtained items worth £6,624 by fraud.

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Depute fiscal Azrah Yousaf said the daughter had been offered promotion at work and it was during this process the matter came to light.

It transpired that Currie had taken out accounts in the daughter’s name as she could not do this in her own name because of a bad credit score.

Defence solicitor Alexander Flett said: “She regrets the embarrassment she caused for her daughter. She had issues with her own credit rating.”

He said his client could be facing civil proceedings to recover the debt.

Sheriff Garry Sutherland said: “This is a very serious offence. People regularly go to jail for this sort of thing.”

Instead, he imposed a community payback order with 250 hours of unpaid work. He warned Currie to comply and not breach the order or she could still end up in prison.