Source: BBC News, Financial Fraud Action UK, 6th June 2013 Attempts to steal people’s bank cards and Pin codes while they are using cash machines have tripled over the past year, according to figures. Financial Fraud Action UK says there were 7,525 incidents in the first four months of the year, compared with 2,553 in…
Source: Action Fraud, 15th May 2013 Three fraudsters who scammed over 100 eBay customers out of money have been ordered to pay back almost £72,000. The three men admitted the large scale fraud in Derby Crown Court in December last year and were jailed for three-and-a-half years. The gang set up a fake company and used…
The following has been reproduced with kind permission from Patrick Combs A True Story by Patrick Combs [First appeared in the London Financial Times, August 2012 as a cover story of The Arts Section] It was a cheque, made out in my name, for $95,093.35 and it came in a junk-mail letter from a get-rich-quick…
Seriously, you could not make this up! Many thanks to @Isaiz for this one… Basically a Honduran citizen (Franklin Jeovany TT) posed as priest to defraud Spanish convents. In what has to be the most specific advance fee fraud scam we have ever heard of, Jeovany conned the convents out of money and supplied would be “nuns” who after…
Source: NFIB & ActionFraud, 16th August 2012 The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) is warning students to watch out for potential scams when looking for rental properties With A level results out and students securing university places, the NFIB is warning about the potential for fraudsters to target students who are looking for university accommodation. The…
Source: Mail Online, 11th July 2012 It seems to us that “Lord” Hugh Rodley should choose a different career… 1980 – under the name Hugh McGough, the Irishman admitted forging document and obtaining goods by misrepresentation, for which he was jailed for 15 months 1987 – Convicted of three charges of obtaining property by disception…
Source: Lancashire Constabulary, 20th June 2012 A CHORLEY woman who scammed over £200,000 from her employer to fund a lavish wedding has been jailed for 20 months. Kirsty Lane, 29, of Lewis Close, Adlington had previously pleaded guilty to ten counts of fraud by abuse of position at Leyland Magistrates’ Court. She also had a further…
Source: The Guardian, 20th June 2012 A hitlist of 30 international websites and 970 individuals, many linked to serious organised crime, are being targeted by police investigating the multimillion-pound black market in sports tickets in the runup to the Olympics. One man is being hunted in Belgium for attempting to sell large quantities of Olympic…
