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
Category: Latest Fraud News
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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
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
New powers to tackle rugby ticket touts
Police are set to be given new powers to crack down on ticket touts ahead of the 2015 Rugby World Cup in England and Wales. Officials confirmed to the Evening Standard that discussions had begun on passing laws making it illegal to re-sell tickets for the tournament. Link to article
Fall in agency robberies
The number of travel agency robberies taking place has fallen despite a recent spate of attacks hitting the headlines, according to the chairman of the Travel Agent and Bureau Security (Tabs) forum. Link to article
Operation Podium report on Olympic ticket fraud
The two machines in the Tesco car park, Solent Road, Havant, were cordoned off by police early this morning. Members of the public had noticed a man they believed was acting suspiciously and reported the matter to staff. Link to article
2013 Hacked Credit Card
2013 Hacked Credit Card, Master Card Details Dump Free. Link to article
Cybercrime could cost small UK firms £785m a year
Forty-one per cent of 2,667 small business respondents surveyed by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) were victims of online crime in the 12 months ending October 2012, representing a loss of £3,926 per business on average. Link to article
Credit and store card fraud on the increase
Frauds identified by the cross sector Members of CIFAS during the first four months of 2013 reveal a marked return to the idea that some products are inherently more attractive to fraudsters. Link to article
UK cyber-attacks
Four modern day pirates launched cyber-attacks on the CIA and global corporations stealing huge amounts of sensitive data and causing websites to crash across the world for their own amusement, a court heard today. Link to article
Pair jailed for Thomas Cook armed robbery
Two armed robbers who made off with more than £50,000 in robberies at Thomas Cook branches and a payday loan shop have started lengthy jail terms. Link to article
Scams Awareness Month
May 2013 is Scams Awareness Month, currently being delivered by the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB) alongside the Trading Standards Institute. According to the CAB, more than three million people in the UK fall victim to scams every year, costing the country a staggering £3.5 billion per annum. Virtually half of us (48 per cent) have […]