Frauds

Online dating fraud rose by 40 per cent in the year to April 2021, with more than 7,500 incidents reported.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/online-dating-fraud-up-40percent-during-pandemic/ar-AAKYUNt?ocid=st

Tech giants were today accused of being “enablers of fraud” as Britain’s top law enforcement body warned they were not doing enough to stop crime gangs from using their sites to cheat people out of huge sums.

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-tech-giants-enablers-scam-132930135.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr

Insurance coverage claims tainted with fraud grew by 10% in 2020 in the course of the top of the pandemic, based on figures from Aviva.

https://www.insurtechcaribbean.com/2021/06/03/ghost-broking-remains-significant-threat-warns-aviva/

Cash-strapped businesses grappling with the cost of the pandemic are increasingly securing loans against the value of unpaid invoices, or 'factoring' as it is often referred to.

https://www.ftadviser.com/companies/2021/06/02/how-factoring-fraud-takes-place/

More than 12,000 fraudulent claims collectively worth more than £113 million were uncovered by insurance giant Aviva last year.

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/proportion-bogus-insurance-claims-jumped-091644712.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr

A PSNI helicopter was deployed to intercept suspected fraudsters accused of posing as police officers to con a Belfast pensioner out of £40,000, a court has heard.

https://www.itv.com/news/utv/2021-05-31/court-hears-police-helicopter-used-to-intercept-fraud-suspects

Justice Secretary Robert Buckland has introduced new reforms for the insurance industry designed to reduce the high number of whiplash claims. The measures which include an online portal will save insurers £1.2 billion and reduce premiums by around £35 a year.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/reforms-clampdown-fraudulent-whiplash-claims-100831266.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr

A man who was taking driving theory tests for other people by wrapping a bandage around his head has been arrested after his scam was discovered by staff members.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/man-jailed-for-wrapping-bandages-around-his-head-to-take-driving-theory-tests-for-others/ar-AAKx4dW?ocid=st

A fraudster who went on the run from police to Spain has been illegally subletting properties in Edinburgh on Airbnb while using an alias - and one letting agent has called it “organised fraud.”

https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/crime/revealed-fraudster-who-went-on-the-run-to-spain-has-been-illegally-subletting-edinburgh-properties-on-airbnb-using-alias-in-organised-scheme-3253758

Police in Northern Ireland have foiled two separate attempts by fraudsters to con cash from older people.

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2021/05/29/six-arrests-in-crackdown-on-fraudsters-posing-as-police-officers/