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A new rapid response scheme by banks and police has prevented potential fraud victims from being scammed out of £1.64million in Cheshire, new figures reveal.
Quick responses from banks and local policing teams prevented people in Dyfed-Powys from being scammed out of more than £500,000 in the last year.
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/crime/2019/02/11/bank-staff-prevent-more-than-500000-in-fraud/
An anti-fraud scheme led by police and the banking sector prevented scams worth more than £5 million last year.
MADRID (Reuters) - One of banking’s most wanted whistleblowers, Frenchman Herve Falciani, has picked unlikely new weapons to fight money-laundering and fraud - cryptocurrency and the blockchain technology behind it.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-spain-cryptocurrency-falciani/banking-whistleblowers-next-crusade-a-clean-cryptocurrency-idUKKCN1PX1JL
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has revealed the latest figures on the level of investment scams in the UK in 2018. The report draws on nearly 7,000 reports during 2018 together with information from Action Fraud. The report shows that people in the UK lost over £197 million in fraudulent investment scams in 2018.
https://www.giambronelaw.com/site/news-articles-press/library/articles/changes-in-financial-regulation-of-fraudsters-and-scammers?utm_source=Mondaq
LONDON (Reuters) - Metro Bank said on Monday some customers had been hit by a fraud which targets a weakness in telecom companies’ text messaging systems used to verify bank transactions, and the bank said it was a wider attack on British banks.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-britain-metro-bank-fraud/britains-metro-bank-hit-by-fraud-attack-idUKKCN1PT1RJ
The FCA has warned investors about the growing threat posed by investment scammers, after £197m of investment scam losses were reported last year
https://www.ftadviser.com/investments/2019/02/06/fca-warns-197m-lost-to-fraud/
A rapid response scheme by banks and local police prevented potential fraud victims in Nottinghamshire from being scammed out of £286,160 in 2018, new figures have revealed, bringing the total amount prevented to more than £477,000.
https://westbridgfordwire.com/figures-revealed-show-police-and-banks-scheme-prevented-477000-of-fraud-in-notts/
A “rapid response” scheme from banks and police prevented people from being scammed out of £38 million in 2018, figures from trade association UK Finance show.
Barclays bosses were put under pressure by Qatari officials to mask the Gulf state prime minister’s holding in the UK bank as it rushed to close a multibillion-pound rescue package that would help the bank avoid a government bailout, a court has heard.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/feb/04/barclays-bosses-pressured-by-qatar-to-mask-gulf-state-pm-holding-court-told?CMP=share_btn_tw
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