Frauds

As more marketing budgets flow towards digital and away from broadcast, the industry will continue to be vexed by online ad fraud – where the number of advertisement clicks and impressions is artificially inflated in order to generate more revenue.

http://www.cityam.com/271135/brexit-ad-fraud-and-metoo-does-future-year-hold-marketing

The three, who apparently were eyeing as much as £300,000 in insurance money when they set the struggling Hinckley Road shop on fire, were found guilty not only of conspiring together to commit insurance fraud but also of multiple murder

https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/uk/news/kidnap-ransom-terrorism/three-found-guilty-in-leicester-blast-insurance-fraud-119831.aspx

Adapting techniques from the criminal forensic field was helping tackle food fraud in the supply chain, offering consumers confidence in the provenance of goods.

https://www.fginsight.com/news/news/innovation-in-agriculture-tackling-food-fraud-in-the-supply-chain-76644

Fraud on contactless cards now accounts for more than half of debit and credit card crime, as criminal push the £30 PIN-free limit to the max.

Simon Atkinson, Lamborghini racing driver and Hemel Hempstead-based company director, has been sent to jail this week for tax fraud.

https://www.motoringresearch.com/car-news/lamborghini-racer-jailed-tax-fraud/

London-based accountant Paul Manley has been banned for 12 years after the Insolvency Service found he had helped one of his clients defraud creditors of £1.65m

https://economia.icaew.com/news/december-2018/accountant-banned-for-role-in-1-65m-fraud#.XB0CLY50TyQ.twitter

An investigation carried out by City of York Council has uncovered a serious case of Council Tax fraud worth almost £6,000.

https://www.minsterfm.com/news/local/2764706/york-man-sentenced-for-council-tax-fraud/#.XBxUD9cwBXI.twitter

Police have made six arrests as part of an investigation into a suspected pension scheme fraud that has conned victims out of £18m.

A cheating couple, with 11 children, who tried to claim £20,000 compensation for 'falling sick' on holiday in Turkey were exposed as liars - after one was filmed dancing by the poolside. The couple were convicted of conspiracy to commit fraud and were ordered to pay £30,000 to the Jet2 Holidays.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/jet2-holiday-sickness-fraud-caught-175700631.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&guccounter=1

An accountant has admitted defrauding almost £600,000 from a company set up by X Factor winner James Arthur.

http://www.irishnews.com/magazine/entertainment/2018/12/18/news/x-factor-winner-james-arthur-s-accountant-admits-600k-fraud-1511579/?param=ds441rif44T