Frauds

UK businesses have lost almost £100m to mandate fraud over the past year, a hike of 28% on the 2017/18 statistics

A gang of "cruel" men who preyed on women for cash through a dating scam have been jailed.

Celebrities oversharing on Instagram are putting their social media followers at risk of identity theft and social engineering, according to Santander.

Kym Marsh is trading Coronation Street's cobbles for a world of crime with a new BBC show tackling "romance fraud". She will co-present the daytime TV series, For Love Or Money, with reporter Ashley John-Baptiste. It will air this autumn.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/17812180.kym-marsh-swaps-coronation-street-world-crime/?ref=twtrec

AN AMATEUR actress who stole £740,000 from taxpayers by conning the authorities into believing her dead father was alive has been jailed for nearly six years.

A man has been jailed after encouraging people to pretend to be ill on holiday to claim compensation.

Automatic push payment fraud is a growing problem where fraudsters deceive an individual or business to instruct their payment services provider, such as their bank, to send money to an account controlled by the fraudster. An increasingly common example is when a fraudster intercepts or replicates a genuine business email and instead inserts their own bank details.

https://www.trethowans.com/news/cybercrime-do-your-terms-and-conditions-protect-you/

Britain’s biggest ever benefits fraudster who faked dementia and hid her father’s death to pocket £750,000 has been jailed.

According to the data obtained by RSM from the UK’s national fraud and cyber-crime reporting centre, businesses lost a total of £99,283,213 to mandate fraud in 2018/19.

Former agent Willie McKay is to stand trial charged with fraud.