The victims were in their 70s, 80s and 90s, with one being knocked to the floor during an incident.
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Fraud
Richard Robinson "deviously victimised" the women "to extract from them everything he could".
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Police say criminals pretend to be from the World Health Organisation and Netflix.
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Dan Whitworth
Money Box reporter
The number of ID thefts in the UK in 2019 rose 18% on the year before to a record high 223,000.
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Ben Schofield
BBC Radio Merseyside reporter
Luton Borough Council said it had been the victim of "a sophisticated external criminal operation".
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Most victims reported no impact on them but they changed their online behaviours as a result.
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Mary Khamis's family found she was giving money to more than 100 scam organisations.
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However, in Thailand the maximum jail time for public fraud is capped at 20 years.
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Luke Durrant was about to be made a director by a family firm before they uncovered his crime.
Read moreCovid-19 scammers con people out of £35k
BBC Radio Jersey
People are being warned about con artists using the Covid-19 pandemic to scam people in Jersey out of thousands of pounds.
So far this year, an estimated £35,000 of islanders' money has been lost to fraudsters.
In May and June alone, there have been five reports of scams with a total loss of £24,550.
Det Ch Insp Chris Beechey said some of the scams had included people claiming to be "from a financial institution or a government agency, or claim they're part of the relief effort".
He added: "We've seen fake testing kits as well."