Month: November 2013

Common scams exposed

Half of Which? members have received a scam email in the past two years, according to our latest survey. To make sure you’re not caught out we’re exposing common scams and how to fight back. Our survey of 1,199 Which? members highlighted some of the common consumer scams out there, with phishing emails topping the […]

Car insurance scam

Danyal Buckharee created four websites offering cheap car insurance and used paid-for advertising to ensure his online enterprises appeared at the top of internet searches. Between May 2011 and April last year he used the websites to dupe 600 drivers into buying worthless policies over the phone, the investigation by City of London Police’s Insurance […]

Wine fraud paid for boob job

Former air hostess who boasted of lavish lifestyle after selling ‘plonk’ to investors in £4.5m wine fraud scam is jailed for four years. A fraudster who sold ‘plonk’ to hundreds of fine wine investors in a £4.5million scam to pay for her ‘boob job’ was jailed for almost four years yesterday. Dina Snelling, 35, blew […]