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A worrying knowledge gap has been highlighted as research reveals a large percentage of people would willingly withdraw their own money at the request of a fraudster posing as the Police.
https://londonlovesbusiness.com/three-in-ten-brits-would-fail-to-spot-impersonation-scams/
The new figures reveal that Cifas members identified a 24% increase in cases of under-21-year-olds falling victim to impersonation fraud in the first nine months of this year
https://londonlovesbusiness.com/huge-rise-seen-in-under-21s-falling-victim-to-identity-fraud/
Figures released by the European Association for Secure Transactions (East) show total losses of €107m for the first six months of 2018 - a 43% drop - primarily as a result of a 19% dip in card skimming scams (down from €118m to €104m).
https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/32766/card-fraud-at-eu-payment-terminals-hits-lowest-level-for-13-years/retail
Two local government workers, who 'cynically and systematically' tried to drain £170,000 from a dementia sufferer they were supposed to be looking after, have each been jailed for three years two months.
https://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2018/09/29/jailed-two-wolverhampton-council-workers-in-170k-dementia-sufferer-fraud/
They told 1500 elderly, retired and vulnerable victims that money from panel installations would be invested to deliver returns, but this was not true and the gang instead used money for cars and holidays.
http://www.thenational.scot/news/16955962.five-scottish-men-jailed-for-17-million-solar-panels-sales-fraud/
Phone users are to be protected from high charges for calling ‘070’ numbers – which are often mistaken for mobiles, but cost much more to call - after it emerged that one in five calls to these numbers involve some kind of fraud.
https://www.scotsman.com/business/companies/retail/price-cap-introduced-as-one-in-five-calls-to-070-numbers-found-to-be-fraud-1-4807827
This is a man West Midlands police want to speak to in connection with a high-value international property fraud
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/police-fraud-alert-15229451
Thanks to the wonders of video surveillance, a pub owner-turned-arsonist had been left with no choice but to plead guilty to fraud by false representation at Chester Crown Court.
https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/uk/news/hospitality/former-pub-owner-imprisoned-over-arson-and-insurance-fraud-113112.aspx
A Belfast woman who committed one of the biggest benefit frauds in Northern Ireland will be sentenced next week.
https://www.irishnews.com/news/northernirelandnews/2018/10/05/news/benefit-cheat-who-earned-almost-144-000-to-be-sentenced-next-week-1450456/
Travel insurance fraud is ever more prevalent, while fraudsters’ methods are increasingly sophisticated.
https://www.itij.com/feature/staying-date-fraud
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