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 […]
The warning comes as a charity worker buying his first home had £67,000 stolen after fraudsters hacked into emails sent between him and his solicitor. Conveyancing fraud is committed when criminals hack into the email chains between sellers and buyers and their solicitors and estate agents. Waiting for the right time (usually on the day
House buyers are being warned to be on their guard when purchasing new properties. Read More »
FRAUDSTERS have stolen £20million of public money by exploiting a loophole in the government’s universal credit scheme, an investigation claims. Criminal gangs are using other people’s identities to apply online for the welfare payment and then claim advance loans on their behalf, according to a report by BBC News. The cost of repayments are then
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One South African family has lost around R100,000 to scammers who promised to get them into Canada. Others regularly pay up to R80,000 to “consultancies” that guarantee jobs in the likes of Vancouver, Toronto, or Montreal – and so, residency in Canada. And as long as the victims are truly committed to emigrating from South
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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Four Corners takes you inside the world of online scamming, as reporter Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop meets teenagers running romance scams out of internet cafes in West Africa and tracks global crime rings involved in drug trafficking and money laundering.
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The world seems to be shocked by the news that WhatsApp turned any phone into spyware. Everything on your phone, including photos, emails and texts was accessible by attackers just because you had WhatsApp installed [1]. This news didn’t surprise me though. Last year WhatsApp had to admit they had a very similar issue –
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The incident is learnt to have taken place in June, 2017 but the airline has failed to get the amount retrieved from the Nigerian bank account. Public sector Air India’s New York office transferred $300,000 to a bank account in Nigeria instead of remitting the sum to a US-based firm Pratt & Whitney for supplying
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Martin Levick, the former CEO of investment house Genesis Capital, is facing criminal and civil legal action amidst allegations of fraud. (Supplied) Martin Levick, the former CEO of investment house Genesis Capital, has been provisionally sequestrated and is facing criminal and civil legal action amidst allegations of fraud. Levick, who was known as an innovator
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