Frauds

Retailers are dealing with rising levels of threats both in-store and online, with a majority naming violence and customer theft as the top challenge to their business, followed by cyber attacks and fraud, new BRC figures suggest.

https://internetretailing.net/retailers-face-rising-levels-of-crime-both-in-store-and-online-study-finds/

One was caught after footage showed her dancing at a wedding, while another was pictured being dropped into the North Sea from an RAF helicopter.

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/how-tip-offs-helped-dwp-26355365?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

Three men have been sentenced after carrying out a complex scam involving elderly and vulnerable victims, including in the North East.

https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2023-03-06/three-men-jailed-after-complex-scam-targeting-elderly-and-vulnerable-victims

The City of London Police’s Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED) has secured its first ever Serious Crime Prevention Order against a serial fraudster who was jailed in 2021.

https://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/news/city-of-london/news/2023/february/insurance-fraud-enforcement-department-secures-first-serious-crime-prevention-order/

In a joint action supported by Europol, a Franco-Israeli organized crime network has been dismantled following its involvement in a cyber-enabled financial scheme that defrauded multiple companies of more than €34 million. Law enforcement agencies across six European countries were involved in the year-long operation, including France, Croatia, Hungary, Israel, Portugal, and Spain.

https://complyadvantage.com/insights/europol-dismantles-franco-israeli-crime-network-behind-e38m-ceo-fraud/

William Bower, 44, overcharged elderly and vulnerable people looking for landscaping, gardening or property works in the East Midlands area

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/fraudster-claimed-vegetative-state-filmed-29367110?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

The company director of an East Sussex-based sports centre is to be prosecuted for allegedly fraudulently evading his duty to pay employee pensions contributions.

https://www.ftadviser.com/pensions/2023/03/01/sports-centre-director-to-be-prosecuted-for-pension-fraud/

Impersonation scams have become one of the most common ways in which fraudsters now target their victims, according to Barclays.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/phone-and-online-copycat-scams-now-make-up-a-third-of-money-fraud-two-victims-tell-us-how-they-were-fooled-by-people-impersonating-a-bank-and-a-fashion-influencer/ar-AA187uHI

More than 700 potential UK victims have been identified, among thousands worldwide targeted by a boiler room fraud that was run from Romania.

https://www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/fraud-targeted-thousands-across-uk-and-abroad

Solicitors have helped rumble a man now jailed for creating a false letter of wishes in an attempt to steal more than £2m from a deceased friend’s estate.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/man-jailed-after-solicitors-catch2m-will-fraud