A woman is to stand trial accused of extorting and stealing more than £12,000 from a number of elderly men and sexually assaulting one victim.
Michelle Carnegie is also alleged to have threatened to make false allegations to police unless they handed over money.
She faces charges spanning more than five years, from March 2010 to October last year.
Carnegie, 33, of Cornton Vale Prison, faces a total of 12 charges on indictment at Forfar Sheriff Court.
She is first said to have targeted a 66-year-old at an address in Forfar, claiming unless he handed over £1,830 she would make false allegations against him to the press and that she subsequently got the money.
Carnegie is then said to have stolen £80 from a 63-year-old, £60 from a 76-year-old and £200 from a 67-year-old.
Prosecutors say she then sexually assaulted a 69-year-old man and stole £300 from him.
Carnegie is then alleged to have stolen £500 from a 77-year-old. She faces another charge of extorting the 63-year-old, allegedly gaining £9,360 from him over five and a half years, having him hand over money under threat of reporting him to police for sex assaults he had not committed.
Carnegie is then said to have extorted £300 from a couple by threatening them with violence between August and October last year. She is also said to have assaulted the female member of the pair twice.
A final charge alleges she tried to extort money from another man by threatening to report him for a crime he had not committed.
Sheriff Pino di Emidio set a further pre-trial hearing later this month.