Frauds

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/

Online banking and credit card fraudsters stole more than £10 million from people in the West Midlands, it has been revealed, with the region seeing the third highest level of bank account fraud in the UK.

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/crime/2021/05/29/more-than-10m-stolen-in-credit-card-and-online-banking-fraud-in-the-region/

The City of London Police issued Account Freezing Orders and Account Forfeiture Orders against assets worth £36m last year, compared to less than £1m in 2019, a jump of 3,600 per cent, according to research by law firm RPC, exclusively shared with City A.M. this evening.

https://www.cityam.com/exclusive-city-of-london-polices-asset-forfeitures-jump-by-3600-per-cent-as-priority-shifts-to-higher-value-fraud/

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/katie-investigates/fake-police-detective-convinced-buy-90000-gold-snatched-life/

A fraudster tried to eat the evidence when he was caught out by police in a £22,000 medical insurance scam.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/conman-tried-eat-evidence-caught-115215463.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr

Food adulteration and fraud is big business with a 2018 European Commission report estimating the global cost as EUR 30 billion per year. But there is not only an economic cost to food fraud. There is a very real public health cost too with methanol poisoning, melamine in baby milk and industrial rapeseed oil examples of recent food frauds that have resulted in health scares and deaths.

https://www.chromatographytoday.com/news/ion-chromatography-ic/58/breaking-news/how-long-does-it-take-to-detect-food-fraud/55217#.YK1ju98Tf8g.twitter

Fraudsters have been jailed after ripping off elderly and vulnerable people in Shropshire and further afield out of almost £200,000.

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/crime/2021/05/21/fraudsters-jailed-after-elderly-and-vulnerable-in-shropshire-among-those-conned-out-of-200000/