Frauds

"I was shaking with rage and stress, I couldn't believe this had happened."

Sue is describing the moment she discovered that her late mother, Margaret (not their real names), who'd spent the last years of her life battling dementia, had had more than £14,000 stolen through direct debit fraud.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-your-money-49110187

Hardeep Dehal, a serving Metropolitan Police officer, has today (24 July) been found guilty of planning to fraudulently claim £18,415 in a staged crash-for-cash with a Tesco delivery van.

https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps-london-north-london-south/news/police-officer-found-guilty-ps18000-crash-cash-fraud

Customers had reported missing bank cards in the same area he was delivering mail

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is carrying out seven criminal investigations into potential scams with indicative losses to savers' pensions of around £55m, the pensions watchdog has revealed.

https://www.professionaladviser.com/professional-adviser/news/3079384/tpr-looking-into-seven-scam-investigations-posing-gbp55m-loss-to-savers

Scots investigators have helped bust a €200 million scam when tuna fish caught for canning were treated with chemicals before being sold as fresh.

Controversial plans to make all Brits show ID at polling stations are set to go ahead - despite more than 1,000 have been denied a vote during trials.

The impersonation of lawyers to commit advance fee frauds has been added to the list of large-scale cyber-attacks from which the government’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is trying to protect the public, it has emerged.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/crime-agency-adds-online-lawyer-impersonation-to-hit-list

A Galashiels woman has been accused of a benefits fraud involving almost £19,000.

A brother and sister who tried to defraud their siblings in their dead mother's will have been warned by a judge to expect jail.

http://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2019/07/18/news/brother-and-sister-in-will-fraud-told-to-expect-jail--1665300/?param=ds441rif44T

Victims of ticket fraud are losing an average of £365 each, a new report has found.