Frauds

A FRAUD-ACCUSED Herefordshire builder has been sent to the crown court.

https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/23138366.fraud-accused-herefordshire-builder-sent-crown-court/?ref=twtrec

Police are asking that everyone remain aware of an ongoing scam called ‘courier fraud’ being reported in Shropshire.

Read the full article via Shropshire Live at: https://www.shropshirelive.com/news/2022/11/21/police-warn-shropshire-residents-of-telephone-fraud-attempts/

Identity fraud is the unauthorised use of a person’s personal information by another person to commit a crime or deceive or defraud that person or a third party in order to take advantage of the pleasures that come with that synthetic identity.

https://www.finextra.com/blogposting/23241/what-is-identity-fraud-definition-types-and-examples

DORSET Police has received 11 reported offences of fraud so far this month where five victims have been defrauded of £72,000.

https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/five-people-defrauded-72-000-120525603.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr

The rental sector has long been a leading target for fraudsters, criminals and money launderers with previous research estimating that 5% of all rental stock is being let to criminals.

https://www.property118.com/82-7bn-worth-of-rental-properties-occupied-by-fraudsters/

A tenant who tried to sell the house he rented without his landlord’s knowledge has been jailed.

https://www.property118.com/tenant-fraudster-who-tried-sell-landlords-house-jailed/

A Belfast woman appeared in court on Wednesday accused of conning 24 people in a holiday home scam on the north coast.

https://www.itv.com/news/utv/2022-11-10/woman-appears-in-court-accused-of-running-north-coast-holiday-home-scam

The Department for Work and Pensions overpaid an ‘eye-watering’ £8.6 billion across benefits in 2021-22, the Public Accounts Committee said.

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2022/11/09/unacceptably-high-levels-of-fraud-and-error-in-benefits-spending-says-watchdog/

Complaints to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) regarding identity fraud soared over the Covid-19 pandemic, finishing 2020 at 44% higher than 2019, according to data obtained through a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by ID-Pal, a leading global identity verification provider. Despite seeing a decrease the following year as normality returned post pandemic, numbers in 2021 are still over 18% higher than pre-pandemic in 2019.

https://www.smeweb.com/2022/11/07/identity-fraud-remains-high-ahead-of-difficult-quarter/

An elderly woman has been tricked into buying a £17,000 Rolex watch and then giving it away.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-63533679