Frauds

Fraudsters are already gearing up to steal from people heading off to university this year, with purchase scams targeting students up by 17% over the last year, according to Lloyds (LLOY.L).

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/scam-fraud-lloyds-students-094914226.html

DVLA are cautioning drivers to watch out for a new scam that is seeing motorists lose up to £5,000. The DVLA said people should not share their V5C log book on social media or selling sites.

https://www.kentlive.news/news/motoring/dvla-issues-urgent-warning-over-7334668?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

Wilfred Mpofu, 32, of Tenby Drive, Luton, claimed he had stage four pancreatic cancer and needed the money for an operation at a private hospital in Switzerland.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-62208615

A conman from Cheshire has been been jailed for his part in a £22m pension fraud. Mark Kelly, 51, of Maplewood Road, Wilmslow, and his accomplice, Rikki Nicholls from Bromsgrove, were both sentenced to a total of six years in prison.

https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/cheshire-man-jailed-role-22m-24517916?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

Police are warning people to be on their guard after a pensioner in Blackburn was scammed out of £38,000 and persuaded to buy a Rolex watch.

https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2022-07-04/scammers-trick-pensioner-into-buying-38k-rolex-watch-in-cruel-fraud

The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) could monitor claimants social media or bank accounts as part of a new fraud crackdown. The government body outlined a £613 million plan to stop around £2 billion losses due to fraud and error over the next five years.

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/uk-world-news/dwp-could-monitor-claimants-social-24434791?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

The former Fifa president Sepp Blatter has insisted he is “clean with my conscience and clean in my spirit” after being cleared of defrauding football’s governing body by a Swiss court.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/jul/08/sepp-blatter-and-michel-platini-acquitted-of-fraud-swiss-court?CMP=share_btn_tw

A man from London has been sentenced for setting up hundreds of fraudulent insurance policies on behalf of other people by using false details and compromised bank accounts.

https://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/news/city-of-london/news/2022/july/ghost-broker-who-profited-over-50k-through-hundreds-of-bogus-insurance-policies-sentenced/

A law firm owner who fell victim to a conveyancing fraud and transferred £68,000 to a bank account without checking the details has been rebuked by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA).

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/solicitors-oversight-saw-68000-paid-to-conveyancing-fraudster

Universal credit pandemic fraud cost the taxpayer almost five times more than all other years put together, official figures show.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/benefit-fraud-during-pandemic-cost-taxpayers-an-eye-watering-%C2%A3101bn/ar-AAZ9hLi