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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
North Yorkshire Police are warning people to be extra vigilant after three separate reports of fraud in the city in quick succession.
https://www.yorkmix.com/news/york-woman-in-her-70s-conned-out-of-40k-by-man-posing-as-sergeant-wiggins/
Police in Harrogate are investigating after an elderly man and an elderly woman were targeted in two separate fake police frauds in the town.
https://www.strayfm.com/news/local-news/2563178/elderly-man-from-harrogate-conned-out-of-thousands-of-pounds/
The scam is known as 'pension liberation' and the offences occurred between September 2013 and April 2014.
https://www.wessexfm.com/news/dorset-news/2559742/two-men-jailed-after-elaborate-pension-scam-in-dorset/
The AA have warned that cash for crash schemes costs 'honest policy holders' an average of £50 on every annual premium.
“Synthetic identity theft” involves fraudsters using a combination of fake information, such as a fictitious name, and real data, like a child’s Social Security number, to create fraudulent accounts.
https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/finance/synthetic-identity-theft/
A man in the Borders has been conned out of more than £15,000.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-43924502
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