Frauds

Fraudsters who scammed pensioners out of £200,000 by claiming to be police officers have been jailed.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-63945367

A London preacher has been found guilty of fraud after selling a fake covid cure for £91 during the height of the pandemic in 2020.

https://grmdaily.com/preacher-guilty-of-fraud-for-selling-oil-bogus-covid-cure/

GONE, we hope, are the days of chalk in flour or horse meat labelled as beef, but food fraud is still happening in Scottish restaurants. The breaches fall under two categories, as identified by the National Food Crime Unit – misrepresentation – “marketing or labelling a product to wrongly portray its quality, safety, origin or freshness”, and substitution – “replacing a food or ingredient with another substance that is similar but inferior”.

https://www.thenational.scot/news/23183560.tip-iceberg-food-fraud-scotlands-restaurants-exposed/?ref=twtrec

A pensioner who cheated a council out of £600,000 after claiming she was bed-bound is still on the run in Berlin.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11495163/Pensioner-66-sentenced-jail-cheating-taxpayers-600-000.html

The number and value of pension fraud cases has significantly increased, with £250 in pension fraud and overpayments recorded between 2020 and 2022, according to the National Fraud Initiative’s (NFI) latest report.

https://pensionsage.com/pa/NFI-reveals-significant-increase-in-pension-fraaud.php

An international one stop spoofing shop has been taken down in the UK’s biggest ever fraud operation, led by the Metropolitan Police.

https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/news/more-than-100-arrests-in-uks-biggest-ever-fraud-operation

With Christmas just weeks away a warning has been issued following a rise in courier fraud in north Wales – including an elaborate scam targeting an elderly member of the public.

https://www.wrexham.com/news/rise-in-courier-fraud-sees-elderly-resident-targeted-with-scam-delivery-and-hsbc-messages-227383.html

The Insurance Fraud Bureau (IFB) has announced the appointment of Ursula Jallow (pictured above) as permanent director.

https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/uk/news/breaking-news/ifb-names-new-director-428879.aspx#.Y4nGaqOlGZM.twitter

In our latest guest post, Brian Kinsella, senior regional fraud manager at Elavon Europe, discusses how to avoid hotel payments fraud during the festive season.

https://www.boutiquehotelier.com/hotel-payments-fraud-elavon-europe/

Aviva is warning drivers to think twice if they are tempted to lie in an attempt to save money on their policy.

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2022/11/30/motor-insurance-policy-fraud-cases-jump-as-households-squeezed-by-living-costs/