The number of mobile malwares active in the wild has risen by an alarming 614 percent, with many scams earning criminals £7 immediate profit per infection, according to security firm Juniper networks. Link to article
Month: June 2013
Hotel Scams
You arrive at your hotel and check in at the front desk. When checking in, you give the front desk your credit card (for all the charges for your room). You get to your room and settle in. Link to article
Fraudulent tickets cost Brits £2.7m
You’ve waited months to see your favourite band play, your bags are packed and you are ready to head off for a weekend of fun. However, it’s not until your ticket doesn’t arrive just before the big day that you realise something is up. Or if you do receive your tickets, they may not be […]
Older people can be easy prey for fraudsters
There is a tendency for people in Britain to believe that life today is more violent and dangerous than yesterday because we are barraged by a 24-hour news cycle. On a daily basis, we are told about an array of crimes and misdemeanours. It can sometimes overpower our imaginations and test our belief in the […]
Fraud map reveals UK’s ID theft hotspots
Criminals are targeting inner city areas but also affluent residents in upmarket towns such as St Albans and Camberley. Link to article
Retail shrinkage cost £2.6 billion this year
Compared to last year, shoplifters and mischief-makers have cut retailers some slack this year. According to The Retail Fraud Survey 2013/14, published by retail consultancy Retail Knowledge Ltd and sponsored by payment experts Kount and Volumatic, retail shrinkage rate in UK went slightly down. The survey says that a slight reduction was observed in shrinkage […]
Former police sergeant convicted
Six people have been convicted for their part in a £5.7 million fraud after a court heard they conned members of the public in an online escort agency scam. Link to article
Phishing gang face 21-year prison stretch
Three men who ran a phishing scam worth millions have been sentenced to jail terms totalling 21 years, after a succesful case brought by the Met Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca), and the US Secret Service. Link to article
Five Guilty Of £6 Million Fraud
Five people who conned 17,000 people using companies in Suffolk have been found guilty. Link to article
Phishing E-mail Campaign Aims at Tesco Buyers
Customers of Tesco the supermarket giant in UK was recently targeted with a phishing campaign that duped them into giving away personal as well as other financial information. The scam continues to go strong, published softpedia.com dated June 6, 2013. Link to article
Dot Tickets steps to tackle online ticketing fraud
British company The Dot Tickets Organisation, one of the applicants in the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) process to create hundreds of new internet addresses alongside .com, has been named as the first independent company to successfully pass the stringent ICANN criteria for the “.tickets” Top Level Domain (TLD) at the end […]
Fraud squad ups property raids
The Serious Fraud Office carried out 29 property raids in the last financial year, up from three in the previous year, according to figures from law firm Pinsent Masons. The watchdog conducted eight raids on firms or individuals under investigation, and a further 21 to seize assets after conviction. The rise comes two years after […]
Employee fraud
Companies should be made criminally liable for failing to prevent fraud or theft by their employees, the director of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has said. Link to article
London police start to target pirate websites
The City of London Police has started contacting websites it believes are profiting by breaking copyright laws. The police and the National Fraud Intelligence Bureau have written to two sites known to share links to pirated copies of music, movies and games. Link to article
BTP launch crackdown on ticket fraud
British Transport Police (BTP) and the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) Safer Transport Command have launched an operation to reduce fraud at Stratford station. Working with Greater Anglia and TfL, officers checked passenger’s tickets and made 14 arrests. 11 people had counterfeit tickets, one was arrested for travel fraud, one for immigration offences and one for […]
Bank card thefts soaring at ATMs
Attempts to steal people’s bank cards and Pin codes while they are using cash machines have tripled over the past year, according to figures. Financial Fraud Action UK says there were 7,525 incidents in the first four months of the year, compared with 2,553 in the similar period in 2012. Link to article
Police smash $200m credit card fraud ring
Eleven people in the US, the UK and Vietnam have been arrested and accused of running a $200m (€153m) worldwide credit card fraud ring, US and UK law enforcement officials said last night. Link to article
Travel insurance fraud
It has emerged that seven per cent of holiday makers aged between 18 and 34 have carried out travel insurance fraud. Link to article
Beware of this passport advice scam
Fraudsters are conning people into paying for passport advice, HM Passport Office has confirmed. The copycat emails are designed to fool people into paying for passport enquiries, which are free for those who go straight to the Passport Office or their local Post Office. Link to article
Syria fraud email
I am Halimah from Syria. My late father is Asaad Altinkaynak was an oil merchant dealing with many oversea companies here before this revolution. You are aware that recently, our country going through revolution that has caused a lot of deaths and damages to properties in Syria. This war has caused me to lose all […]