African internet scammers target lonely locked-down Brits as romance fraud hits record 7,000 cases in 2020 and detectives call on ministers to crack down on Facebook Graeme Biggar, head of National Crime Agency’s National Economic Crime Centre, said agency is combating surge in fraud during Covid-19 pandemic He warned social media companies like Facebook would … Read more
Thousands of people now depend on others to do their shopping, withdraw cash and pay bills on their behalf because of the pandemic. But this has put them at a greater risk of fraud. Last year, there were 29,180 concerns raised over financial abuse, according to NHS records. And if you hand your bank card … Read more
The Department of Justice has extradited a Canadian citizen from Spain and charged him with defrauding over one million Americans out for nearly $200m in an international psychic mail fraud scam that spanned two decades. Patrice Runner, 54, made his initial appearance in federal court in Central Islip, New York, Tuesday having been released into … Read more
Banks can wriggle out of paying fraud refunds if they can prove victims ignored warnings on their websites. Yet a damning report by the Lending Standards Board (LSB) revealed last week that many of these scam alerts are vague, ineffective and not good enough. The watchdog refused to name and shame the banks with the … Read more
Donald Trump accused Republicans of allowing Democrats to steal the election and chastised the Supreme Court for refusing to hear a Texas lawsuit attempting to overturn the Joe Biden’s victory in a furious Twitter rant on Sunday evening. Trump packed several of his favorite unfounded claims of election fraud into the rant, which came hours … Read more
Today alone, fraud victims in Britain will lose another £4 million. That’s around £1.5 billion pocketed by scammers in a year. And as career criminals continue to outsmart the police, banks and security experts, these losses are only set to balloon further. So it’s little wonder our profit-hungry High Street banks are feeling a bit … Read more
A vital refund scheme for scam victims that had faced the axe this month will be extended until June next year, Money Mail can exclusively reveal. High Street banks have pledged to continue to refund customers conned into transferring money to fraudsters — but it is thought the refund scheme will not be extended after … Read more
Fraud fears spark ban on business accounts: Lloyds, NatWest and HSBC stop taking on new customers amid rush of bounce back loan cheats Up to 55 per cent of applications were potentially fraudulent Just 15 per cent of those applying ended up opening a current account after identity and fraud checks By Emma Dunkley And … Read more
Police have arrested three people, including a 17-year-old boy, as part of a fraud probe into a GoFundMe page which claimed to have been set up to raise money in memory of four young men who died when their car crashed into a house. Ryan Nelson, 20, Corey Owen, 19, Matthew Parke, 19, and Jordan … Read more
A retired three-star general is sticking by his claims that U.S. special operation forces died in during an attack on a CIA computer facility in Germany that was stowing away info about an effort to flip votes from President Donald Trump to Joe Biden, even though top Army officials have heavily rebuked that such an … Read more