transfer money to the gang's front company, Almena Properties in Gibraltar

Fraudsters who used the lure of the London Olympics to con pensioners into handing over their life savings were facing jail today.

The gang cold-called elderly people at home offering what they claimed was a lucrative property portfolio in Stratford, near the 2012 site.

Fraud squad officers who smashed the racket believe the gang got away with at least £300,000 between 2006 and 2007. Detectives traced up to 90 victims who each lost between £2,500 and £30,000.

Adrian Davison, 42, of south-east London, masterminded the scam, recruiting four accomplices - Andrew Bingham, 72, of East Sussex; Patrick Golding, 29, of Ashford, Kent; Kenneth Mullen, 42, of Lanarkshire, and Derrick Voysey, 63, of Buckinghamshire.

Victims were telephoned from a 'boiler room' office in Barcelona, and urged to invest in bogus property schemes. Once hooked, they were sent glossy brochures and told to transfer money to the gang's front company, Almena Properties in Gibraltar, or to an address owned by Bingham in London."

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