Nearly 3,000 scam complaints registered in six months, says Action Fraud. Consumers were cheated out of nearly £1.3m in the six months to the end of October as a result of spiralling entertainment and sport ticket fraud. With 2,885 reports registered with Action Fraud covering the six months to the end of October – and […]
Month: November 2015
Mandate Fraud in the Travel Industry
We have received numerous reports of companies being targeted by mandate fraud in the travel industry, please see below information provided by Action Fraud. Mandate fraud is when someone gets you to change a direct debit, standing order or bank transfer mandate, by purporting to be an organisation you make regular payments to, for example […]
Lads holiday goes wrong as boys hit by fraud
A lads holiday went horribly wrong after a group of students realised they’d become victims of fraud and lost all their money before they even got there. Chris Kenny, 20, along with 13 of his friends had saved up for six months and were looking forward to the £400 ten-day trip to the Greek island […]
Fraudsters behind £100k LFC ticket scam jailed
Craig O’Donohue, 29, and Paul Murgatroyd, 28, duped hundreds of fans who paid over the odds to watch the team play at Anfield. Two crooks who plotted a £100,000 scam to forge Liverpool FC tickets have been jailed for a total of seven-and-a-half-years. Craig O’Donohue, 29, and Paul Murgatroyd, 28, duped hundreds of fans who […]
Keeping Fraud at Bay Requires a Joint Effort
Fraudsters are drawn to airlines like a moth to a flame, but they aren’t the ones who get burned. Air ticket sales are a “prime target” for fraud, said Jose Hernandez, fraud manager at Orbitz Worldwide. “With consumer goods, you can call up UPS and say, ‘Hey, send it back. You can’t do that with […]
133 detained in global action tackling airline fraud
On 3 and 4 November 2015 law enforcement agencies from across the world, supported by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), joined forces with the airline, travel and payment card industries in a major concerted operation to combat online fraud in the airline sector. The operation was organised globally through coordination centres at Europol in The […]