Frauds

A paralegal who stole £70,000 from people’s estates to splash out on designer clothes and handbags has been jailed for more than three years.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/paralegal-jailed-for-swindling-money-from-clients-estates

Simon Drust, owner of the butcher's shop The Meat shack, in Studley, Warwickshire, has been jailed for more than two years after he admitted to mislabelling meat.

https://www.plantbasednews.org/post/butcher-jailed-after-mislabeling-meat#disqus_thread

Thames Valley Police have released an image of a man who could have vital information about a theft and fraud in Reading.

https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2019-04-28/cctv-image-released-following-theft-and-fraud-in-reading/

Cyber funerals are now a thing and are carried out to close down social media accounts, manage search engine results and stop identity fraudsters from virtually resurrecting the deceased for their own personal gain.

https://www.itproportal.com/features/why-a-digital-duty-of-care-for-the-bereaved-is-crucial/

A butcher who raked in hundreds of thousands of pounds flogging imported meat branded "Best of British" has been jailed.

https://stv.tv/news/scotland/1437330-crooked-butcher-flogged-cheap-foreign-meat-as-aberdeen-angus/

Google has purged Android apps from a popular developer from the Play Store after an investigation alleged it had been ‘committing large-scale ad fraud and abusing user permissions.’

https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/google-play-bans-developer-3706134

One of the joys of this job is hearing when scams go wrong, which has just happened thanks to wonderful taxi driver Don Welby.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/hero-taxi-driver-don-foils-14274491?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

Whether you are a technophile or technophobe, most people are alive to the need to be vigilant to cyber risks.

https://www.scotsman.com/colette-finnieston-individuals-and-businesses-must-stay-vigilant-on-fraud-1-4911687

A MAN has appeared in front of a judge and denied money laundering charges said to be linked to Africa-based “romance fraud”.

In the finance sector’s hunt to improve ways to combat the scourge of payment fraud, biometric verification technology is coming to the fore and being adopted by banks, especially when it comes to card fraud.

https://thefintechtimes.com/fault-in-our-stars-fraud/