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Dating apps should do more to verify users to help prevent romance fraud, the Victims' Commissioner has said. The BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme spoke to victims of a man who was jailed for conning 19 women out of £24,000.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-50303452
Flights to Africa and the Indian subcontinent are among the destinations thought to be targeted by fraudsters.
https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/news/action-fraud-urge-people-to-be-on-the-lookout-for-too-good-to-be-true-flight-deals
A Greek shipowner orchestrated a plan for men posing as pirates to attack and set fire to his tanker, in an elaborate fraud to seek $77 million in insurance money, a London judge found.
https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/international/2019/10/08/293473.htm
Alan Blacker, aka Lord Harley, is in court accused of illegally receiving £60,000 in disability benefits.
Martin Underwood paid £1,000 each for tickets from sellers who contacted him on Facebook.
At the end of this month, an army of ghosts, ghouls, witches and goblins will roam the streets in search of candy. As terrifying as these hungry souls may be, a more ghastly monster -- in search of something much more lucrative than sugar -- is wreaking havoc on the world’s population: identity fraud.
https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/18077/spoooooky-types-of-identity-fraud
A Penrith woman has appeared in court charged with dishonestly failing to disclose information to the Department for Works and Pensions, which she had a legal duty to disclose.
Government plans to introduce photographic ID for voters in elections have been branded "clearly discriminatory" by Tom Watson.
RSA Ireland has entered a three-year commitment with BAE Systems to adopt its NetReveal counter-fraud technology.
Rogue roofing contractors who targeted elderly London residents have been jailed for a total of 18 years
https://www.journaloftradingstandards.co.uk/crime/four-jailed-after-major-investigation/
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