Western Sydney conman Sunny Sunny jailed after fraud spree hit brothels, gold sellers and car dealer

He defrauded sex workers, gold sellers and a famed auction house for a luxury car — but one of Sydney’s most talented conmen is finally behind bars. Here’s how detectives caught Sunny Sunny.

Armed with a cheque book and a ­silver tongue, an unassuming Western Sydney student conned his way out of handcuffs and into luxury cars and “porn-star experiences”, and convinced people to part with bars of gold.

Police label him the most “prolific and talented conman” in Sydney’s west, and today The Daily Telegraph can lift the lid on his web of lies after detectives spent two years unpicking his fantasy life.

For six months in 2020, brothels, car modifiers and gold sellers were ­receiving troubling calls from their banks about bouncing cheques. Cheques for tens of thousands of dollars, being cut by Gurdeeta Singh, Edward Zinck, Sandeep Singh, Ahmad Abbas, weren’t worth the paper they were printed on.

Each of the deadbeats had the same swept-back hair, the same soft voice and arching eyebrows, but no one could find them — their phone numbers were all cancelled, their letters were being delivered to other peoples’ addresses.

The varied and sophisticated con jobs were all the product of one 32-year-old Indian man whose real name can now be revealed as Sunny Sunny. Sunny’s true name and address was often a mystery to investigators, and much of his life was a secret even from friends and family.

Scammer Sunny Sunny has been jailed. Picture: Perry Duffin.

THE $46 RANGE ROVER

Police found a stolen black Range Rover Evoque parked outside a nondescript brothel in a Pendle Hill industrial zone in September 2020.

The luxury SUV had been reported stolen from Pickles Auction House after auctioneers realised a cheque for $46,888 was bogus, documents state.

A scammer, under a fake name, changed a decimal point to a comma in a cheque worth only $46.88.

By the time Pickles realised they’d been scammed, a tow truck driver had taken the Range Rover to Warwick Farm. Sunny had enlisted a mate to take delivery and used an alias to register the luxury SUV and conceal his tracks. He then scammed new wheels worth $1800 off a car business.

Police didn’t realise who had stolen the Range Rover as they towed it away from the brothel — and they certainly didn’t realise the scammer was still inside the car.

They left it in the lockup and left. Then a car door cracked open and Sunny crawled out — he had been hiding or asleep inside — and simply unlocked the roller door and drove off.

Court documents say he re-registered the Range Rover in his wife’s name.

One court document sets out numerous other scams allegedly linked to Sunny. Some did not result in charges, but the “tendency document” alleges a pattern of criminality.

“MY NAME IS SUNNY, I WAS KIDNAPPED”

One month after his impound escape, the document says, Sunny contacted police saying he was kidnapped in his “wife’s” black Range Rover after a dispute with a sex worker.

Police looked over the car before returning it to him, unaware it was one of the most wanted cars in Sydney. Sunny had altered the unique VIN serial number.

It would take months for forensic experts to realise, the documents state.

PAPER INTO GOLD

One week after Sunny’s alleged kidnapping he messaged a retiree who was selling gold bullion on the Central Coast.

Sunny, flashing a driver’s licence for “Edward Zinck”, told the seller he’d buy about $10,000 worth and deposited cheques into an ATM at Woy Woy. The cheques were worthless but, by the time the seller realised and went to police, Sunny had driven away with the gold.

Detective Lance Colyer arrives at court to give evidence in Sunny Sunny’s case. Picture: Tim Hunter

PORN-STAR EXPERIENCE

At about this time fraud detectives realised bogus cheques linked the Range Rover and gold bars, but also brothels and escorts who claimed they’d been ripped off.

Sunny, according to the tendency document, defrauded one sex worker at an Enmore brothel for $1900 worth of pleasure.

Six months later he returned and tried to scam the same sex worker but was recognised. Police were called but Sunny was allowed to leave. Sunny was not charged for that alleged scam.

Throughout that year, police allege, Sunny scammed more than $10,000 from escorts for “porn-star experiences”, once with two women at a time, often with a fake name.

Sometimes he’d pay with dodgy cheques from his companies, sometimes he’d transfer the money and then reverse it — it took days for the escorts to be alerted.

A picture of the scams emerged from the worthless cheques, bank accounts, phone numbers and email accounts linked to dudded businesses.

All the cheques were from two bankrupt or closed down businesses.

SLIPPING THE NET

The tendency document claims Sunny was spoken to by police and even arrested on multiple occasions but allowed to leave.

In December 2020, he was arrested twice as police used the cheques to tie him to multiple scams.

He was bailed by the courts in April 2021 but a warrant was issued when he stopped fulfilling his bail obligations.

“(Sunny) is a prolific fraudster and exceptionally talented conman,” Detective Senior Constable Lance Colyer warned the courts in one fact sheet.

“He has an extensive history of altering documents … He has been able to recruit third parties to assist him in further offending, conceal his crimes and escape prosecution.”

CAUGHT FOR A MASSAGE GUN

Sunny’s freedom finally came to an end in July 2021.

“Eden” had contacted a woman to buy a personal massager for $60 on Facebook and sent proof of a bank transfer.

The suspicious seller handed over the goods and snapped a photograph of “Eden” getting into a blue Mercedes C180, his swept-back hair clearly visible. The money never came through and police were called.

The Mercedes, registered in Sunny’s name, was found by police at a Merrylands service station.

In the footwell was a chequebook for one of the fraudulent companies — the fraud equivalent of a smoking gun. The tendency notice says half of the fraudulent cheques came from that chequebook.

Even a handwriting expert had been brought in to tie the documents to the same author.

‘SHYSTER’ FACES COURT

Sunny would later tell police he’d just been living with a mate in Parramatta while on bail, the tendency document states. No one at that unit block had heard of Sunny, or his mate, but handed over a stack of unopened letters bearing both their names.

“He has just ripped people off,” magistrate Greg Grogan said in sentencing Sunny on Tuesday.

Sunny was sentenced on 15 “premeditated and sophisticated” charges, including stealing the Range Rover, false documents and dishonestly ­obtained by deception.

“The community needs to be protected from shysters and that’s the only name I can think appropriate to label Mr Sunny,” the magistrate said.

Sunny was sentenced to almost two years in prison and will be eligible for parole on January 1, 2023. But, Mr Grogan warned, his visa had been cancelled and he was almost certainly going to be handed over to the ­Department of Immigration for deportation to India as soon as his time in prison was finished.

Sunny, Covid-positive and locked away for at least another six months, gave a thumbs up to the court.