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The general public unwittingly donated thousands of pounds to a group of men planning to carry out suicide attacks in Britain, a court has heard.
Three Birmingham men posed as collectors from a genuine charity - Muslim Aid - and went door-to-door in the city and Leicester, it heard.
But the charity received a fraction of the money, Woolwich Crown Court heard.
Irfan Naseer, 31, Irfan Khalid, 27, and Ashik Ali, 27, deny engaging in conduct in preparation of terrorist acts.
The court heard detectives found notes which suggested they had collected £12,100 but lost £9,149 of it after engaging in foreign currency trading.
Brian Altman QC, prosecuting, said the men wore Muslim Aid T-shirts and tabards to "beguile the public into believing this was legitimate charity collecting, when it wasn't.
BBC News - Terror trial: 'Public duped into funding bomb plotters'
