Frauds

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/

There has been a significant increase in fraudulent tenant activity in recent months, new research shows.

https://propertyindustryeye.com/sharp-rise-in-fraudulent-activity-leaves-agents-on-high-alert/

The UK government has confirmed plans to require pension trustees and scheme managers to rubber-stamp pension transfers as part of its efforts to crack down on pension scams.

https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/uk-pension-transfers-subject-red-flag-anti-scam-regime

Romance scams are undoubtedly a particularly cruel form of fraud, preying on people’s need for love and connection - often via dating sites and social media - and exploiting that to steal not just people's money, but their self-esteem and sense of trust.

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/relationships/a36457311/romance-scams/

UK consumer group Which? is calling on banks and building societies to publish figures on the proportion of customers they refund for authorised push payment (APP) fraud.

https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/38061/which-calls-on-banks-to-come-clean-about-app-fraud-refunds

A man has been jailed for orchestrating fraudulent motor insurance claims and cloning a claims management company (CMC) to pass them to a firm of solicitors in return for referral fees.

https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/jail-for-conman-who-cloned-cmc-and-sold-fake-pi-claims-to-law-firm

Fraudsters are poised to target the public with ticketing, travel and health insurance scams as we all rush to book much longed-for social activities this summer.

https://www.stratford-herald.com/news/fraudsters-ready-to-exploit-easing-of-lockdown-9199484/

Suspect pension transfers could be blocked or paused by a system of “flags” under plans to clamp down on scammers.

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/flag-system-proposed-tackle-pension-114751609.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr