Frauds

A Greek shipowner orchestrated a plan for men posing as pirates to attack and set fire to his tanker, in an elaborate fraud to seek $77 million in insurance money, a London judge found.

https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/international/2019/10/08/293473.htm

Alan Blacker, aka Lord Harley, is in court accused of illegally receiving £60,000 in disability benefits.

Martin Underwood paid £1,000 each for tickets from sellers who contacted him on Facebook.

At the end of this month, an army of ghosts, ghouls, witches and goblins will roam the streets in search of candy. As terrifying as these hungry souls may be, a more ghastly monster -- in search of something much more lucrative than sugar -- is wreaking havoc on the world’s population: identity fraud.

https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/18077/spoooooky-types-of-identity-fraud

A Penrith woman has appeared in court charged with dishonestly failing to disclose information to the Department for Works and Pensions, which she had a legal duty to disclose.

Government plans to introduce photographic ID for voters in elections have been branded "clearly discriminatory" by Tom Watson.

RSA Ireland has entered a three-year commitment with BAE Systems to adopt its NetReveal counter-fraud technology.

Rogue roofing contractors who targeted elderly London residents have been jailed for a total of 18 years

https://www.journaloftradingstandards.co.uk/crime/four-jailed-after-major-investigation/

Insurance fraud in the UK is on the rise, in 2018 alone UK insurance fraud cases reached a combined value of £17 million, almost £5m more from 2017. The Fighting Fraud special report, published in The Times, explores the cost of fraud for various global industries, Brexit causing UK fraud concerns to rise, and the dark side of medical image manipulation. It examines the importance to educate and caution younger generations on financial risks with online data sharing and emerging technologies that help to combat the rise in cybercrime. Finally, it covers the real cost of cybercrime through an infographic looking at what companies stand to lose with poor cybersecurity.

https://www.raconteur.net/fighting-fraud-2019

BRITISH police service on Monday (21) said it had shut down two sophisticated criminal call centres in India’s Kolkata, instrumental in defrauding thousands of victims in the UK alone, with the cooperation of local police.

https://www.easterneye.biz/uk-police-shut-down-two-sophisticated-criminal-call-centres-in-india/