A SERIAL fraudster with a lengthy criminal history and long-term drug addiction will spend her 40th birthday behind bars.
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Lisa Renee Restall, 39, was caught multiple times taking mail from letterboxes and using the stolen licences, pension cards, Myer One cards and other items to fuel her drug habit.
The mother-of-two took a stolen VicRoads licence belonging to a woman who lived on Bellevue Street, North Albury, into JB Hi-Fi on Kiewa Street on July 16.
She used the licence to take out a 24-month Telstra plan on a silver Samsung Galaxy S7.
The $95-a-month plan included payments of $1176, and Restall gave her own Gmail address as part of the transaction.
She sold the phone three days later for $300.
The Webb Street resident went into the Telstra store on Dean Street the following day and attempted the same scam.
She again produced the stolen licence, bond paperwork, and paperwork for a Westpac account with altered details.
The store manager was concerned the licence photograph didn’t match Restall and her signature was different and she took off empty handed.
The licence holder only realised she was a victim when she sought a credit check, which showed several fraudulent applications had been made in her name.
Restall had also used the licence to open a Bendigo Bank account at the Griffith Road branch.
Stolen documents were used to collect several people's mail at Australia Post.
She had stolen mail from Wagga, Griffith and Douglas roads, and Jason Court, last June.
The 39-year-old was caught holding a large stash of paperwork and envelopes near her home.
She produced a card with her name on it to confirm her identity, but police had to watch her use a key to her home and give further documents to prove who she was.
A similar area was targeted in September.
She was placed on a good behaviour bond in November and had an arrest warrant issued the following month for earlier dishonesty offences.
Restall was rearrested in January and had her bail revoked for failing to comply with the conditions in February.
Magistrate Michael Crompton last week jailed her for up to seven months, with a minimum of three months, on a string of larceny, dishonesty and property charges.
