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A fraudster has been pretending to be a police officer to withdraw money from bank accounts in Telford.
https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/crime/2018/11/23/public-targeted-by-bogus-police-officer-in-telford-fraud/
Mary Banks died four weeks after her bank card was stolen, as police release CCTV images of a woman wanted over the fraud.
https://news.sky.com/story/police-hunt-woman-after-10k-stolen-from-dementia-patient-91-laying-in-peterborough-hospital-11554123
Staffordshire Police are investigating after the woman, who has not been named to protect her identity, met a stranger on Scrabble app 'Words with Friends' who then seduced her and conned her out of tens of thousands of pounds.
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2018/11/16/stafford-woman-loses-30k-to-romance-fraud/
A Cheshire set up rent-to-buy scheme, targeting vulnerable victims and promising them that through the scheme, he would successfully obtain a mortgage for them, allowing them to purchase the property of their dreams.
https://northyorkshire.police.uk/news/property-scam-fraudster-jailed-for-3-years-9-months/
A man who used fake details to make fraudulent dental and optical claims for himself and a fictitious wife and children has been sentenced.
http://news.cityoflondon.police.uk/r/1143/fraudster_sentenced_after_making_false_health_cla
The City of London Police's Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED) are supporting the Motor Insurers' Bureau (MIB) Operation Drive Insured, a national campaign to catch uninsured drivers.
http://news.cityoflondon.police.uk/r/1145/ifed_warn_drivers_of_ghost_broking_in_support_of_
Leicester Crown Court has heard one of the supposed co-conspirators was left to die as she “knew too much” about what prosecutor David Herbert QC described as “a plan to profit from a false insurance claim for loss of stock, contents, and future loss of business” from the burned Zabka Polish store on Hinckley Road.
https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/uk/news/breaking-news/prosecutor-says-woman-left-for-dead-by-insurance-fraud-coconspirators-116321.aspx
Victims of courier fraud have lost more than £6.1 million in the past year as conmen pose as police officers and bank officials to steal cash.
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2018/11/12/courier-fraud-scams-see-victims-lose-61m-in-a-year/
A man appeared at Nottingham Crown Court and has been sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison having pleaded guilty to one burglary and four counts of fraud by false representation.
https://westbridgfordwire.com/man-sentenced-for-distraction-burglaries-and-frauds-across-nottingham/
Over the previous few years fraudsters have been turning to online dating apps or websites in an effort to extort money from unsuspecting victims in search of finding their perfect partner.
https://pressreleases.responsesource.com/news/96552/romance-fraud-the-risk-of-online-dating/
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