Frauds

A pensioner, jailed after admitting a £45,000 benefits scam, told the Department for Work and Pensions he lived with his wife who had no income

https://stv.tv/news/north/1415308-pensioner-jailed-for-45-000-council-benefits-fraud/

A Bishop's Cleeve mum defrauded the state of £17,000 in an abuse of benefits for her severely-disabled daughter.

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/cheltenham-news/fraudster-mum-convicted-17000-abuse-1567278

A benefits cheat who falsely claimed £51,867 after telling the authorities he could barely walk was filmed climbing flights of stairs at work, a judge has heard

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5714841/Benefits-cheat-54-pocketed-52-000-caught-video-trotting-flights-stairs-work.html

Two brothers from Smethwick, previously jailed for seven years, who were the ringleaders in a timeshare fraud gang have been ordered to pay back £100,000 following a proceeds of crime investigation.

/s/timeshare-fraud-brothers-ordered-pay-14616366

Gosport was one of five United Kingdom areas taking part in the trial in an effort to cut down on voter fraud.

http://clicklancashire.com/2018/05/05/small-number-of-voters-turned-away-in-id-trials.html

Officers have been dealing with a fraud that involved an elderly resident in West Bridgford, the offenders are very plausible and the scam relates to internal bank investigations.

https://westbridgfordwire.com/warning-elderly-west-bridgford-resident-victim-of-bank-fraud/

Two fraudster brothers whose near £17 million swindle helped fund an extravagant lifestyle of Rolex watches and private jet hire while depleting their victims’ retirement savings have been jailed.

https://www.itv.com/news/2018-05-03/ruthless-brothers-jailed-for-17m-fraud-which-preyed-on-elderly/

Specialist insurance industry law firm Horwich Farrelly, which describes itself as having a zero tolerance approach to fraud, has successfully defended more than 2,000 holiday illness claims in 10 months.

https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/uk/news/hospitality/fraud-will-not-be-tolerated-regardless-of-the-value-of-the-claim-99434.aspx

Companies are being warned to ensure they put in place strong measures to ensure that one of the key tenets of GDPR – the right to erasure – does not result in a huge uplift of identity fraud and spark a new practice of malicious data hacking.

https://www.decisionmarketing.co.uk/news/one-month-until-gdpr-d-day-beware-rise-of-id-theft

Victims are told to pay an up-front fee for the horse and it’s shipment only to later find that it doesn’t exist.

https://actionfraud.police.uk/news/equine-fraud-costs-victims-70k-may18