Man wanted over Oldham bank fraud

BBC News
Police in Greater Manchester investigating a £263000 bank fraud have named a man they are looking for. The money was stolen from NatWest in Oldham in July ...
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Fake ER doctor convicted of fraud blames it on childhood abuse

Scottish Daily Record
A Scots fantasist convicted of fraud for pretending to be a qualified doctor has claimed he did it because he was sexually abused as a child. ...
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Gwynedd slate quarry managers to pay £250000 for fraud

BBC News
After the fraud was discovered, 126 workers at Welsh Slate lost their jobs. A judge at Caernarfon Crown Court has now ordered assets worth £243499.46 should ...
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UK Payments: contactless payment 'a secure option'

Contactless News
UK Payments' claim is backed by statistics. According to Financial Fraud Action UK, card fraud in the UK has gone down to its lowest level in two decades, ...
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Recession increases used car fraud scams

Which
The Finance and Leasing Association (FLA) has discovered that car fraud scams in the UK are on the increase and urges anybody purchasing a used car to check ...
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Chip and Pin fraud claims dismissed

The Press Association
"It requires possession of a customer's card and unfortunately there are much simpler ways to commit fraud under these circumstances at much less risk to ...
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UK credit cards use chip to beat theft: Why not in the US?

WalletPop (blog)
This Bankrate.com article says fraud at stores in the UK has dropped since chip and PIN cards were adopted widely, but it also points out that enterprising ...
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David Cameron wades into Nicola Sturgeon fraud row

BBC News
The conviction is Rauf's second for fraud after he was given a four-year prison sentence in 1996 for taking nearly £60000 in pension and benefit payments ...
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New Technologies to Combat Mobile Phone Theft and Fraud

Mobile Marketing News
Now that mobile phone users are increasingly using their handsets for online banking and social networking purposes, the problem of fraud and stolen ...
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Consumers blame retailers for online fraud

V3.co.uk
Consumers place the blame for online fraud squarely on the retailer, rather than themselves, according to the UK Online Fraud Report 2010 from payment ...
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Three charged over caravan fraud

BBC News
A woman and two men have been charged in relation to a fraud inquiry at a caravan park in Moray. A spokesman for Grampian Police said the charges referred ...
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Six arrests in fraud probe

Insider North West
Six people in Manchester and Cheshire were arrested yesterday in connection with a £2m VAT repayment fraud linked to the construction industry.
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Manager of Glasgow bank jailed for loans fraud

BBC News
James Smith, from Motherwell, admitted the fraud which took place while he worked at the Clydesdale Bank's Charing Cross branch in Glasgow. ...
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32 Percent Increase in Identity Theft

All Headline News
CIFAS, the UK's fraud prevention agency, attributed the rise in identity theft incidents to the recession. Overall, fraud cases increased by 9 percent ...
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Officer charged with bank fraud

BBC News
A police officer has been charged as part of a investigation into an alleged £85000 bank fraud. Sgt Dalvan Dawkins, 54, of Lancashire Constabulary, ...
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Parker Worldwide warns of careers scams in UK

Online PR News
The Director of UK Marketing firm Parker Worldwide ltd said that too many people are being affected by Scams, the latest is the career scam where these ...
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Fraud victims asked to help watchdog probe

Lancashire Evening Post
Fraud victims asked to help watchdog probe - People caught up in an alleged multi-million pound Ponzi-style scam have been asked to hand ...
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Nelson fraudster pocketed £2000

Lancashire Telegraph
A CASH loans company worker made money to the tune of almost £2,000 in a payments scam.
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Eight denying £7m property fraud

BBC News
Eight men and a woman have gone on trial accused of being involved in a £7m property fraud in Aberdeen. They are accused of being part of a fraudulent ...
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Former Lake District hotel owner jailed for fraud

Lancashire Telegraph
A HOTEL owner, who once helped win a Michelin star at one of the Lake District’s most exclusive hotels, has been sent to prison for defrauding his customers.
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Fraud hits £62m and the worst is yet to come

Manchester Evening News
THE total value of fraud cases that went to court in the north west hit almost £62m in 2009.
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CCTV released in Essex fraud inquiry

BBC News
Police have released CCTV images from an Essex bank of a man they want to speak to in connection with a fraud inquiry. The man was captured on cameras at a ...
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Met officers accused of rent fraud during 7/7 inquiry

BBC News
Three Metropolitan Police officers have been charged over an alleged plot to defraud the force over rents. Det Sgt Peter Allbut, Det Con Daren Pooley and ...
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Ex-magistrate is stripped of £4.1m

Lancashire Telegraph
A former magistrate who was jailed for a £38,000 fraud was ordered to give up his assets worth £4.1 million at a confiscation hearing.
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Crime in Cumbria down but sex offences increase

Lancashire Telegraph
STATISTICS released by the Home Office show crime in Cumbria has dropped 10 per cent in the past year – but sexual offences have increased.
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Cardiff the UK's fraud card capital

Banking Times
The report also reveals that card fraud across the UK has increased by more than 6% in the same period, equating to almost three million additional victims. ...
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Young facing online fraud risks

BBC News
As a result, they were more at risk of fraud. Their use of social networking forums increased the possibility of posting sensitive personal information ...
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Rosegrove residents warned over mail scam

Lancashire Telegraph
Residents are being urged to be aware that a company is putting a card through people’s doors suggesting that they were unable to deliver a parcel and that people need to contact them on a premium rate telephone number.
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Online job scams rise with unemployment

San Francisco Chronicle
British nonprofit BobBear.co.uk, which documents online job scams, identified more than 550 fake company Web sites in 2009 - most of them reported from the ...
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Haiti online donations blocked over fraud concerns

BBC News
Andrew Goodwill, from fraud screening firm 3rd Man, said criminals use charity donations to test whether a card has been stopped. ...
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Woman faces fraud charge

Lancashire Evening Post
Woman faces fraud charge - A care assistant accused of illegally obtaining more than £17000 in benefits has made her first appearance at ...
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Customs raid nets cigarettes and spirits

Lancashire Telegraph
MORE than 311 litres of illegal spirits, 22,000 cigarettes and around £17,000 were seized during raids on two premises in Bury.
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'Most wanted' couple sentenced for benefit fraud

BBC News
A Scottish couple who went on the run from police and were arrested in Spain after appearing on a "most wanted" list have been sentenced for fraud offences. ...
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Elections fraud figures revealed

BBC News
Forty-eight fraud cases were reported following last June's European and English local elections, figures show. Of these, one resulted in a prosecution and ...
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France cheque loophole uncovered by BBC

BBC News
The BBC has uncovered a loophole in French banking law that allowed a fraud of £2m (1.8m euros) to be carried out. ...
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Chorley benefit cheat had four jobs

Lancashire Telegraph
A Chorley man who claimed benefits because he was too ill to work, had four cleaning jobs, a court has heard.
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Bogus GP jailed by Liverpool court

Liverpool Echo
A SERIAL conman was jailed for two years after masquerading as a doctor and a vet
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PRESS DIGEST - Financial Times

Reuters
According to accounting firm BDO, UK companies reported losses attributed to fraud of nearly 2.1 billion pounds in 2009, an increase of 76 percent. ...
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Woman in £10,000 hamster fraud

Lancashire Evening Post
Woman in £10000 hamster fraud - A trusted garden centre worker, who was in charge of buying hamsters and rabbits, dishonestly pocketed £10000 from her ...
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Google is failing consumers by profiting from scam websites

Times Online
A search for another jeweller, Tiffany & Co, reveals the sponsored link www.uk-tiffanyonline.com, which claims to offer discounts of up to 85 per cent. ...
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Men sentenced over £1m fraud

BBC News
Two men who ran a £1m scheme selling worthless company shares to unwitting victims across the UK have been jailed. Martyn Jagger, 27, of Aylesford, Kent, ...
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Warning over 'Yellow Pages' scam

BBC News
... the UK, including Lincolnshire, Kent, Somerset and Shropshire. Sue Jones, trading standards service manager at the council, said:"The fraud is simple, ...
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DLR ticket machines replaced after hit by coin fraud

BBC News
Ticket machines on the Docklands Light Railway network in London have been replaced because of coin fraud. Criminals used specially adapted coins to steal ...
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'Carousel' frauds plague European carbon trading markets

Telegraph.co.uk
... investigators are examining the possibility that some of these unknown UK-based companies have used the system to commit "carousel" fraud linked to VAT. ...
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Blow to Microsoft UK as respected e-crime expert heads home to US

Scotsman
He was a global expert in complex online white-collar crimes such as money laundering and fraud. The software giant did not disclose the reason for his ...
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Man jailed for policy fraud

Lancashire Evening Post
Man jailed for policy fraud - A BARNSLEY man who fraudulently claimed more than £100000 on his dead father's health insurance policy - then spent it on ...
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Two jailed over £20m card fraud

Mirror.co.uk
By Emily Nash 24/12/2009 Gboyega Akinbola, 36, and Oyetundi Oyedeji, 31, were London-based members of a gang that cloned credit details in the UK, ...
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Fraudsters jailed over £20 million credit card scam

Telegraph.co.uk
The investigation uncovered a vast scam involving more than 200000 stolen credit card details and leading to the biggest retrieval of compromised data in UK ...
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Six charged in Cheshire BS mortgage fraud

Banking Times
According to the Serious Fraud Office: “It is alleged that the defendants participated in a series of frauds whereby they dishonestly obtained loans from ...
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Elderly lose life savings in scam

BBC News
The new Jamaican-based lottery scam has already seen some people in the UK lose several thousand pounds, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) said. ...
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SFO in fraud probe at Icelandic bank

Financial Times
SFO officers will focus on whether the bank deliberately misled UK savers to encourage them to invest in its high-paying “Kaupthing Edge” deposit account ...
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European taxpayers lose €5bn in carbon trading fraud

guardian.co.uk
News of carbon trading fraud emerged as EU governments were trying to persuade other countries to participate in the emissions trading scheme. ...
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UK bans Kenyans over corruption

BBC News
Mr Macaire pointed out that Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) had dropped its investigations earlier this year into the "Anglo-Leasing" affair, ...
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UK government, BAP ink deal to fight visa fraud

Business Mirror
Mark Date, British Embassy Manila visa services entry-clearance manager, told reporters that the number of cases of fraud has hit 700, and 21 percent of ...
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Inquiry into cash machine fraud

BBC News
The appeal is part of a fraud investigation in which six people have already been remanded by the courts, and three others are on police bail. ...
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UK Fraud Office Arrests Six in Alleged Commercial Loan Fraud

Bloomberg
UK prosecutors arrested six people and searched 19 properties in an investigation into suspected advance-fee fraud and rent fraud in the ...
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Police shut 1200 scam shopping websites

guardian.co.uk
Graeme Robertson UK police this week shut down more than 1200 scam websites that claimed to be selling designer clothes and jewellery, ...
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Baroness Scotland's ex-cleaner is charged by police

BBC News
Otolose Loloahi Tapui has been charged with possession of a false identity document, fraud by false representation and overstaying leave to remain. ...
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Businessman hired to look for Madeleine denied bail

BBC News
A businessman hired to help look for Madeleine McCann and wanted by the FBI on fraud charges has appeared in court. Kevin Halligen was arrested at an Oxford ...
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Insurers face rising tide of fraud

Times Online
A recent ABI survey revealed that 44% of the UK population didn't see anything wrong with exaggerating the value of a claim. Others clearly have no problem ...
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Spanish credit card scam 'may have affected Visa and mastercard h

According to the BBC, UK Visa or mastercard credit card holders will be contacted directly if they a
According to the BBC, UK Visa or mastercard credit card holders will be contacted directly if they are thought to be at risk. Credit card holders have also ...
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Man in court to face 10 charges of fraud

Lancashire Evening Post
Man in court to face 10 charges of fraud - A man accused of conning people out of more than £10000 in deposits for cars, housing and goods has had his ...
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When Credit Card and Identity Theft Strikes at Home

Credit Card Guide News
That's chomp change compared to what Apple boss Steve Jobs is facing following a scam involving a gang of UK djs, who used stolen credit cards to purchase ...
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Fears of new Bernard Madoff-style fraud rock Mallorca expats

Times Online
It is thought that Hirst has returned to the UK but not yet contacted the authorities. However, he has hired Opus Law, a firm specialising in serious fraud ...
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Fake payslips bought on the web at the centre of mortgage fraud

guardian.co.uk
... of one of the websites, Replicadoc.co.uk, said that he is offering a legitimate service for clients who wish to use them for fun, not to commit fraud. ...
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By-election fraud allegations lead to calls for voting system cha

Ekklesia
After reports that police are investigating alleged voting fraud in the Glasgow North East by-election, a leading democracy group has ...
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UK Prosecutors Investigating Dynamic Decisions Fund

Bloomberg
The UK Serious Fraud Office opened a criminal investigation into hedge fund firm Dynamic Decisions Capital Management Ltd. after receiving ...
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Seventh arrest over £4m tax fraud

BBC News
A 62-year-old woman has become the seventh person to be arrested during an investigation into alleged tax fraud involving £4m. The woman from Chepstow, ...
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Job hunting: By hook or by crook

guardian.co.uk
Typically, Bacon says, criminals need just three out of 15 key pieces of information to commit identity fraud – the average CV received as part of the ...
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Cardiff pair bailed in £4m tax fraud inquiry

WalesOnline
A MAN and a woman from Cardiff have been held in connection with a suspected £4m tax fraud with links across the UK and Europe. The man, 65, and woman, 47, ...
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Solicitors examined in fraud case

BBC News
An unnamed firm of Newry solicitors is under investigation in connection with an alleged £7m fraud operation, the High Court has heard. ...
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Shannon 'aunt' jailed for fraud

BBC News
A neighbour of abducted schoolgirl Shannon Matthews has been jailed for a year after admitting benefit fraud amounting to more than £35000. ...
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Ex bank managers on fraud charge

BBC News
Two former bank managers from County Armagh have appeared in court charged in connection with an alleged £7m fraud and money laundering operation. ...
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7 charged in Medicare fraud, feds seize millions

BBC News
She pleaded guilty to 10 counts of tax benefit fraud at an earlier hearing. The court recorder Rachel Smith imposed a nine month sentence, suspended for two ...
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Lloyds TSB Reports Recession Raising Fear of Identity Theft

PR Web
According to CIFAS, the UK's Fraud Prevention Service, it takes an estimated 48 man hours to repair the damage resulting from fraud, and the cost to victims ...
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Scams growing as tax deadline looms

Independent
I would strongly encourage anyone receiving such an email not to open it, send it to us for investigation at phishing@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk and then delete it. ...
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Call centres 'putting shoppers at risk of card fraud'

Telegraph.co.uk
Last week Financial Fraud Action UK, which monitors bank transactions, reported that phone, internet and mail order fraud cost £134 million in the first six ...
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Identity fraud is the UK's fastest growing crime in 2009

guardian.co.uk
A study published at the beginning of National Identity Fraud Prevention Week shows the scale of ID theft in the UK. Identity fraud is increasing at a rapid ...
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Shannon Matthews' aunt admits £35000 benefit fraud

Daily Mail
The former aunt of kidnapped schoolgirl Shannon Matthews is facing jail after admitting a £35000 benefit fraud. Amanda Hyett, 27, lied to ...
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Online Banking Fraud in the UK Hits a New High

PC World
Online banking fraud in the UK has risen to the highest level in at least three years while card-related losses fell in most categories, according to ...
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Card fraud in the UK falls by 23%

guardian.co.uk
Card fraud in the UK is declining, but criminals are exploiting overseas customers. Photograph: Corbis The amount of money being lost through card fraud ...
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Finance director jailed for fraud

BBC News
Andrew Wetherall, 49, of Christchurch Close, St Albans, Hertfordshire, admitted false accounting and fraud, at London's Southwark Crown Court. ...
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