Frauds

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

The 48-year-old is charged with one count of fraud by false representation relating to a claim he lived in the tower block at the time of the fire.

http://www.itv.com/news/london/update/2018-09-23/man-charged-with-grenfell-fraud/

The data, obtained by RSM from Action Fraud, the UK’s national fraud and cyber-crime reporting centre, revealed that businesses submitted over 3,451 reports about mandate fraud in 2017-18, a rise of 123 per cent over the previous year’s figure of 1,551.

https://londonlovesbusiness.com/business-losses-from-mandate-fraud-double-to-77m/

A man who pretended to be a victim of the Grenfell Tower disaster has pleaded guilty to fraud totalling nearly £90,000

http://www.itv.com/news/2018-09-21/man-pleads-guilty-over-88-000-grenfell-tower-fraud/