Frauds

Criminals are defrauding advertisers out of their ad spend, with brands losing up to $700k a year and agencies losing $200k a year to criminal gangs using bots for fake clicks, according to new research.

Small companies risk losing £10,000 a year, and enterprises as much as £520,000, to cyber criminals as click fraud volumes spike

Labour MP Apsana Begum will stand trial in July over housing fraud allegations after a judge prioritised her trial in the “public interest”.

An advice firm has been ordered to compensate a client after their pension pot was raided by “malign” fraudulent activity.

Police are investigating a number of scams where fraudsters have claimed to be police officers in order to obtain money

I am selling up and last year I sold a flat and made the leasehold a shared freehold. The buyer had a survey done in March, and it showed up some works to be completed. He never told me of this survey nor its contents.

Fraudsters pretending to be police officers are conning residents throughout Shropshire.

A Wolverhampton woman who was duped by an online conman is warning others against tricksters who will look to exploit lockdown loneliness for cash.

The Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) is warning members of the public to watch out for insurance scams that continue to exploit the financial loss people are facing as a result of the disruption of Covid-19.

Fraudsters are targeting elderly and vulnerable people with a vaccine scam and asking for bank details or cash payments for access to vaccines that are fake or non-existent.