Frauds

Fraudsters used holiday booking scams to steal more than £7 million from travellers last year, according to a new report.

Australian singer-songwriter Casey Donovan opened up again last night about the six years she thought she was involved in a relationship with a man she never met, someone called “Campbell”.

http://theconversation.com/from-catfish-to-romance-fraud-how-to-avoid-getting-caught-in-any-online-scam-115227?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton

More than 5,000 people were the victims of holiday booking fraud last year, with their total losses amounting to £7m, research suggests.

A fraudster has been jailed after he lied about being ill or injured to make several fraudulent travel claims for the same family holiday, amounting to a total of £19,225.

http://news.cityoflondon.police.uk/r/1224/fraudster_jailed_for_multiple_fake_travel_insuran

A woman has been sentenced after she lied about her personal car being stolen to make a fraudulent insurance claim. She was a serving Metropolitan police officer at the time of her offence*.

http://news.cityoflondon.police.uk/r/1225/former_met_police_officer_sentenced_for_falsely_c

Think Jessica the Film is an educational documentary drama produced by Think Jessica, the charity committed to protecting elderly & vulnerable people from fraud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwXMsG2xkcM&feature=youtu.be

Six years on from the horsemeat scandal, we are still counting the cost. So why do I bring this unpleasant, uncomfortable memory up now?

Government ministers have estimated that £33m was saved from “falling into the wrong hands” through the joint-regulator campaign against pension scams, Action Fraud.

An 83-year-old man lost £5,200 after handing over cash to a courier upon the instruction of a fraudster posing as a police officer.

A fraudster who pocketed more than £16,000 saying he could barely walk has been caught out by investigators who were tipped off that his benefits claim was just not cricket.