Frauds

Greater Manchester Police have started a fraud inquiry into the cash crisis that ultimately led to Bury's expulsion from the English Football League last week.

https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2019-09-03/police-launch-fraud-inquiry-into-bury-fc/

eBay have failed to shut down the scam where sellers’ PayPal email payment address is changed diverting funds into scammers accounts. This weekend, yet another seller contacted Tamebay having fallen victim to the scam in what’s becoming a steady trickle of devastated small business owners.

https://tamebay.com/2019/09/ebay-fail-to-paypal-email-payment-address-scam-as-more-sellers-lost-thousands.html

Three men have been arrested after a refund card was believed to have been used to take £36,000 from the tunnel's accounts

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/tyne-tunnel-scam-suspected-fraudsters-16841723?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

New data released by the Association of British Insurers (ABI) today indicates that the average value of detected insurance fraud is in excess of £12,000

A fraudster who drummed up false holiday sickness claims over several years has been jailed for 12 months.

https://www.litigationfutures.com/news/jail-for-holiday-sickness-claims-fraudster

An estate agent has been sentenced to prison for false representation following a Thames Valley Police investigation.

https://www.thamesvalley.police.uk/news/thames-valley/news/2019/august/26-08-19/man-sentenced-to-prison-for-fraud-by-false-representation--chalfont-st-peter/

A man who defrauded women on dating sites has been jailed for three years.

Insurers detected 469,000 fraudulent and dishonest claims last year, according to data from the Association of British Insurers (ABI).

https://www.moneyexpert.com/insurance/insurance-fraudsters-rumbled-nearly-half-million-scams-last-year/

Insurance scammers are going above and beyond to con their insurers, according to the Association of British Insurers’ (ABI) annual detected fraud figures.

https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/uk/news/breaking-news/average-insurance-scam-now-costs-12000--abi-176417.aspx#.XWhNh1_mddU.twitter

An investigation into a council tax fraud involving forged tenancy agreements has been uncovered and successfully prosecuted by City of York Council.