|
||||||
|
More than £70,000 has to be paid back by a serial fraudster who bilked more than tens of thousands of pounds through scams. Mark Shortland, of Sheffield, received three years in jail in 2010 when he ripped off students and girlfriends and taking advantage of the unemployed. One scam was where he offered bogus jobs [...]  Every seven seconds someone is defrauded, which comes out to be an average of £285 per person in the UK. The study from CPP, the life assistance company, estimated that just within the UK about 3.7b phishing emails were received over the last year. More than half of all emails are phishing emails were fraudulent emails [...] One internet detective acting alone was able to shut down a fake charity that was scamming people for cash under the guise of sending the money to children in need in Haiti. Charles Conway, age 36, discovered an email fraud that looked like a real charity but instead of sending the money to children in Haiti [...] |
|||||
|
Copyright © 2012 Consumer News |
||||||
