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Swindon post office cashier steals from pensioners

The trial has opened regarding the cashier who allegedly fleeced the pensioners who she served at Gorse Hill Post Office. 29 year old Rajwinder Samra, from Colborne Street in Swindon, is accused of taking hundreds of pounds from eight customer’s bank accounts by persuading them to enter their PIN numbers a second time. Samra, who [...]

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Senior surveyor in £10m mortgage scam

The jury at the Old Bailey has heard about the part a senior surveyor who is married to a police officer is said to have played in a £10m mortgage scam, and received money and cars as her reward. Mary Jane Rathie is said to have deliberately overvalued 5 upmarket properties in London for a [...]

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£1.25m mortgage fraud sends mother of three to jail

A mother of three and former legal executive has been jailed for her participation in a £1.25m mortgage fraud that involved fake mortgage applications. Humaira Shah, 46, of Luton submitted different applications to a number of lenders that amounted to an attempt of almost £3m in fraud.

She was part of a network of organized crime [...]

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Block paving company taken to court for dubious practices

Jim Coffey a director from Almondsbury’s Interlock Drives, Ltd, a block paving company, has pleaded guilty to fraud charges. He admitted to six criminal offenses while appearing in Bristol Crown Court. Coffey, 34, from Over Lane plead guilty under the Fraud Act 2006 as well as the Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 2008. Six [...]

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Bogus charity clothing collections arrests

A company was raided in Bristol by trading standards officers and police because of an investigation into a bogus charity clothing collections. Travel bags are alleged to have been sent by Sparco Ltd., which were printed with Breast Cancer and Bernhardos in Wales, the Midlands and southwest England to homes.

They are accused of keeping the [...]

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Fraud accusation against Britain’s Got Talent

A member of Bond, a string quartet has accused Britain’s Got Talent as being an outright fraud. The member, Eos Chater claimed that Alexandra Parker, auditionee played over one of the groups albums.

 

In different tweets the member said it was understandable if one pleaded ignorance to the copyright laws but not #bgt or #itv! WTF? [...]

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UK Border Agency employee jailed for fraud

The former head of the UK Border Agency commercial investigation unit, arrested for fraud totalling £480m, has been jailed for four and a half years. A Criminal Records Bureau check was not performed on Andrew Waldron, otherwise the prosecutor says the Home Office would have known about this past and would not have allowed him [...]

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2008 Leeds Festival conman jailed

A con man was jailed for three years after duping people out of money by offering tickets to a 2008 Leeds Festival. Christopher Bundza was found guilty in March on 17 charges by a jury at Leeds Crown Court. The charges were for obtaining proceeds of a fraud and ticket fraud.  He also has admitted [...]

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Internet fraudster goes directly to jail

In court yesterday a serial internet fraudster admitted to a total of five new charges including trying to sell software packages, iPhones and Ryder Cup tickets that did not exist. Phillip Shortman, formally of Cwmbran, pleaded guilty in Newport Magistrates Court, to five offences that fall under the fraud act.

The dates of the offences were [...]

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Get rich quick conman caught out

Cost Reduction Services, a firm backing a dubious get rich quick scheme, is run by 46 year old bankrupt fraudster, Stewart Kennedy. Linked to the firm are three scoundrel lawyers who use fake photographs of satisfied customers as bait and promise monthly incomes of nearly £4700 to gullible debt laden Scots.

 

The undertaking is another grand [...]

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