Frauds

According to the 2018 Cifas Fraudscape Report, application fraud in motor finance increased by 47% between 2015 and 2017.

https://www.motortrader.com/blogs/guest-blog/motor-finance-growing-problem-identity-fraud-23-11-2018

One in five (22%) people have been defrauded via their credit card in the last year, according to a survey of 2,000 UK adults commissioned by comparethemarket.com.

https://www.finextra.com/pressarticle/76482/credit-card-fraud-index-41-billion-stolen-as-a-result-of-credit-card-fraud-in-the-uk-in-past-year/retail

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/