Frauds

  • 14 May 2018 1:50 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Two brothers from Smethwick, previously jailed for seven years, who were the ringleaders in a timeshare fraud gang have been ordered to pay back £100,000 following a proceeds of crime investigation.


    /s/timeshare-fraud-brothers-ordered-pay-14616366



  • 14 May 2018 1:36 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Gosport was one of five United Kingdom areas taking part in the trial in an effort to cut down on voter fraud.


    http://clicklancashire.com/2018/05/05/small-number-of-voters-turned-away-in-id-trials.html

  • 07 May 2018 2:16 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Officers have been dealing with a fraud that involved an elderly resident in West Bridgford, the offenders are very plausible and the scam relates to internal bank investigations.

    https://westbridgfordwire.com/warning-elderly-west-bridgford-resident-victim-of-bank-fraud/

  • 07 May 2018 2:15 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Two fraudster brothers whose near £17 million swindle helped fund an extravagant lifestyle of Rolex watches and private jet hire while depleting their victims’ retirement savings have been jailed.


    https://www.itv.com/news/2018-05-03/ruthless-brothers-jailed-for-17m-fraud-which-preyed-on-elderly/

     


  • 07 May 2018 2:14 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Specialist insurance industry law firm Horwich Farrelly, which describes itself as having a zero tolerance approach to fraud, has successfully defended more than 2,000 holiday illness claims in 10 months.


    https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/uk/news/hospitality/fraud-will-not-be-tolerated-regardless-of-the-value-of-the-claim-99434.aspx


  • 07 May 2018 2:13 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Companies are being warned to ensure they put in place strong measures to ensure that one of the key tenets of GDPR – the right to erasure – does not result in a huge uplift of identity fraud and spark a new practice of malicious data hacking.

    https://www.decisionmarketing.co.uk/news/one-month-until-gdpr-d-day-beware-rise-of-id-theft

  • 07 May 2018 2:12 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Victims are told to pay an up-front fee for the horse and it’s shipment only to later find that it doesn’t exist.


    https://actionfraud.police.uk/news/equine-fraud-costs-victims-70k-may18


  • 30 Apr 2018 12:07 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    North Yorkshire Police are warning people to be extra vigilant after three separate reports of fraud in the city in quick succession.

    https://www.yorkmix.com/news/york-woman-in-her-70s-conned-out-of-40k-by-man-posing-as-sergeant-wiggins/

  • 30 Apr 2018 12:06 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    Police in Harrogate are investigating after an elderly man and an elderly woman were targeted in two separate fake police frauds in the town.

    https://www.strayfm.com/news/local-news/2563178/elderly-man-from-harrogate-conned-out-of-thousands-of-pounds/

  • 30 Apr 2018 12:06 PM | Anonymous member (Administrator)

    The scam is known as 'pension liberation' and the offences occurred between September 2013 and April 2014.


    https://www.wessexfm.com/news/dorset-news/2559742/two-men-jailed-after-elaborate-pension-scam-in-dorset/


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