Frauds

In total, these advances are worth an estimated £100-£150 million, a report by the spending watchdog has indicated.

https://scottishhousingnews.com/article/universal-credit-claimants-suspected-of-150m-advances-fraud

There have been 105 cases of Covid-19-related fraud cases reported to Action Fraud since February 1 2020, and total losses of around £970,000.

https://www.professionaladviser.com/news/4012824/coronavirus-related-fraud-causes-losses-gbp970

A man has been imprisoned after he claimed to have been a resident of Grenfell Tower to defraud a London council of nearly £32,000.

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2020/03/21/grenfell-resident-impersonator-jailed-for-32000-fraud/

Consumer watchdog Which? is calling on the Government to force all banks to adopt Confirmation of Payee, as new figures show over £1 billion has been lost to authorised push payment (APP) scams over the past three years.

https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/35471/which-calls-for-government-action-on-app-fraud-as-losses-spiral

Europol has supported two separate law enforcement operations that have smashed and arrested members of a SIM card fraud ring that has stolen millions from bank accounts in the last two years.

https://www.cbronline.com/news/europol-helps-smash-sim-card-fraud

A man has been sentenced after CCTV caught him purposely banging his knee five times on a paving stone in order to make a fake injury claim. When he’d spotted the camera, he started to hop on one leg in an attempt to authenticate his injury.

Business email compromise (BEC) and phishing scams are two of the most common tactics used by cyber criminals to infiltrate business networks and cause havoc in the form of wire transfer fraud, data encryption, planting ransomware, and even blackmailing or coercing employees to perform unwarranted actions.

The North Wales Police and Crime Commissioner has launched a drive against con artists who target lonely men and women in cruel romance scams.

http://www.wrexham.com/latest-news/plans-to-tackle-romance-scams-after-north-wales-woman-conned-into-sending-59k-to-callous-heartbreaker-182241.html

A former player at one of Scotland’s top-flight clubs has been arrested by police probing football match-fixing claims, we can reveal.

https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/top-flight-football-coach-held-in-police-match-fixing-probe/?utm_source=twitter

After being exposed as rogue traders on TV, they carried on cheating unsuspecting customers under a new company name