Adu Bunu, 34, was part of a gang which stole the identities of more than 1,000 victims and was on course to make £1 million.
He took a mobile phone picture of his smiling baby son on a bed covered in more than £4,000 worth of £20, £10 and Euro notes and sent it to relatives back in Romania to boast.
Bunu, who worked as a painter and decorator, claimed the money was from his son's Christening when police found the picture after raiding his flat in Wakefield, West Yorkshire on January 29 this year.
He had been driving up to 830 miles a day in his BMW to withdraw up to £500 a time from cash machines using 2,000 fake cards. The gang fitted new fronts to cash points which could be removed in seconds and included a false card reader and a pin hole camera to record the PIN numbers of unsuspecting victims.
Police launched a surveillance operation after discovering a fraud "hotspot" in Beverley, east Yorkshire but officers found he was also traveling to Wakefield, Halifax, Batley and Dewsbury, raking in at least £43,000 and was wanted in Hampshire and Sussex. Bunu's alleged accomplice, Florin Palade, 33, is still on the run.
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