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A “despicable” Shropshire rogue trader who pressured two couples into paying more than £16,000 for shoddy work on their homes has been jailed for more than two years.
A fraudster who conned six victims into paying a total of £12,318 for deposits on rental properties has been jailed.
Research by travel association ABTA recently revealed that £7 million was lost by more than 5,000 victims last year to holiday booking fraud.
Notorious conman Mark Acklom has been sentenced to five years in prison after admitting to swindling a woman he agreed to marry out of £300,000.
Shropshire Council has welcomed the sentencing of a rogue trader that pressured vulnerable people into paying out more than £15,000 for shoddy work on their homes.
The increased digitalisation of commercial transactions has encouraged criminals to find new ways to defraud their victims, and in some cases, created new issues for the Courts to untangle. In K v A [2019] EWHC 1118, a commodities case on appeal from a GAFTA arbitration award, various issues arising from hacked emails and the payment of over USD 1 million into a fraudulent account, were examined by the Court.
http://www.mondaq.com/uk/x/833038/White+Collar+Crime+Fraud/Hacked+Emails+And+Fraudulent+Accounts+A+Modern+Tale
Card fraud abroad is rife, with Brits losing £174 million a year. One holidaymaker explains how she lost over £1,000 during a dream trip to Bali.
The new finding follows the Charity’s analysis of the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), which interviewed over 34,000 people about their experiences of crime.
A ghost broker has been sentenced to 16 months imprisonment suspended for 18 months, 300 hours of community work, three months curfew and ordered to pay his victims back £8,000 plus court costs of £1,200.
https://www.insuranceage.co.uk/insurer/4127121/ghost-broker-sentenced-for-18-counts-of-fraud
UK businesses have lost almost £100m to mandate fraud over the past year, a hike of 28% on the 2017/18 statistics
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