More than 40 people have been arrested in a crackdown on courier fraud across England and Wales. Police say more than 3,000 people, most of them elderly, have been duped into withdrawing large sums of cash and handing it to someone posing as a courier or police officer. In October, a couple from Dorset lost […]
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As more and more people spend most of their day-to-day lives online or in the digital space, the world is just a click away. Walls and borders that once separated us as individuals are fading or have totally disappeared. The digital world envelopes us; we communicate, trade and transact online in ways that are incredibly
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Scope of bribery Bribery in Nigeria is slightly less prevalent than three years ago Out of all Nigerian citizens who had at least one contact with a public official in the 12 months prior to the 2019 survey, 30.2 per cent paid a bribe to, or were asked to pay a bribe by, a public
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Abubakar Rasheed, executive secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), says the commission has uncovered about 100 fake professors across Nigerian universities. Raheed said this in a bulletin published by the commission in November. He said details of the fake professors have been published on the official website of the commission and that their names
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Officers investigating a series of bank card thefts from housing estates across east London find a victim who took pictures of the gang as they stole her card from her communal post box. Detectives discover the gang were tipped off about the victim’s card being delivered by a corrupt bank employee and move in to
A Citigroup Inc. brokerage unit’s failure to run adequate background checks on thousands of employees led to three individuals who’d been convicted of crimes working for the firm, an industry regulator said. Citigroup Global Markets Inc. insufficiently screened 10,400 workers from January 2010 until May 2017, triggering a $1.25 million fine, the Financial Industry Regulatory
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A woman who suspected her mother was being scammed online later sent the fraudster £40,000, ending up heavily in debt. The mother-of-one from south east Wales was a victim of romance fraud, a crime which police say grew by nearly a third last year. Now the woman has spoken out about falling for the charms
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The Fraud triangle is a framework designed to explain the reasoning behind a worker’s decision to commit Fraud , Armed Robbery and Kidnapping . The three stages, categorized by the effect on the individual, can be summarized as pressure, opportunity and rationalization. Pressure – Financial pressure and critical commitments . This could lead them to
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