Frauds

Two women from Tamworth who stole over £634,000 from the beneficiaries of wills, including money intended for life-saving charities, have been jailed for six and a half years between them.

A total of 23 estates were found to have money stolen from them by Laurna Porter and Julie Atkins over 13 years. They were arrested at their home address in 2018

Surrey Police are warning residents about a resurgence of the so-called "courier fraud" scam in the area. which involves people impersonating officers.

Since January, there have been 23 reported cases across East Surrey of criminals impersonating Surrey police officers to defraud victims out of cash and valuables.

Legislation will bring seismic change to the industry and aims to stamp out money laundering.

Not for the first time in the history of the European parliament, it all started in Belgium. An investigation into alleged bribery, money-laundering, forged transfer contracts and the involvement of organised crime at the highest levels of professional football that began in 2018 eventually implicated almost 60 agents, administrators, referees and coaches.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/apr/23/european-union-money-laundering-crime-corruption-uefa

Sixteen people have been sentenced for their roles in a fraud conspiracy which saw thieves steal cars worth £2m.

Investigators said the group used stolen identities to create false credit agreements before a group of men called "strikers" collected the cars from different locations such as hotel car parks.

The fraud ran from February 2020 to July 2022 during which time 75 cars, including Porsches, Mercedes and BMWs were stolen.

Taylor Swift fans are being urged to avoid a cruel summer as mean ticket fraudsters take advantage of demand for the star’s Eras tour to con thousands of would-be concert-goers.

One of Britain’s biggest banking groups, Lloyds, said: “Fans of Taylor Swift are being targeted by a wave of concert ticket scams flooding social media.”

As the scammer gonna scam, Lloyds said that British fans are estimated to have lost more than £1 million since tickets for the UK dates went on sale.

The recent decision in CCP Graduate School Ltd v National Westminster Bank plc and another [2024] EWHC 581 (KB), demonstrates how Claimants are repositioning claims against banks arising from authorised push payment (APP) fraud from breach of Quincecare duty claims to so-called “retrieval duty” claims.

https://cms-lawnow.com/en/ealerts/2024/04/app-fraud-quincecare-duty-claims-against-banks-replaced-by-new-retrieval-duty-claims

The DWP is set to change how people are assessed for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) in a bid to crack down on benefit fraud.

It comes after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced he was worried that the current system was being 'misused'.

The Tory leader spoke of how PIP awards can come off the back of 'subjective and unverifiable claims' that physical or mental illnesses and disabilities are affecting a person's life. Some conditions don't show on medical scans or tests, so the department must take the word of the person claiming on the severity of their own specific condition, Birmingham Live reports.

Privacy activist group Big Brother Watch has questioned the legality of the plan for Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to run checks on the financial data of benefits claimants.

DWP has said the organisation’s claims are false and emphasised the intent to use the powers to reduce benefits fraud.

The plan was announced as an amendment to the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill in November of last year.

Police are investigating after a vulnerable person was targeted by fraudsters pretending to be from the bank.

Officers said the case of courier fraud took place in the Chorley area and people are being asked to warn their elderly relatives and friends not to hand over personal details.

Police are urging people to be wary of scammers when booking tickets for concerts and other events as figures show Almost £300,000 was lost to ticket fraud last year in Northern Ireland.

Data from Action Fraud shows nationally £6.7 million was lost to this type of crime. In Northern Ireland, the total reported losses came in at £291,344.36 with 299 reports made.

https://www.armaghi.com/news/scammers-make-off-with-almost-300000-from-299-reports-of-ticket-fraud-in-ni/240122