Oyster card fraudster who swindled £24,000 by creating bogus travel cards using faces of elderly Turkish actors and politicians before selling them on is facing jail Efecan Gokce, 20, from Hendon, London, sold fake Oyster cards via social media Potential loss to TfL ranged from £647,000 to £2,500,000, Gokce taking £24k Found to be using four … Read more
Benefits cheat who swindled more than £46,000 by falsely claiming she was a single parent is caught out after she was spotted escorting her long-term boyfriend to black tie dinner Claire Bostock illegally filched extra housing benefit and support for six years She was caught when inspectors found incriminating photos on her Facebook Bostock wept … Read more
A corrupt RAC worker who pocketed up to £25,000 selling customers’ addresses and phone numbers to a personal injury claims firm has been spared jail. RAC manager Kim Doyle, 33, leaked the personal data of 4,570 RAC customers to make ‘easy money’. She secretly collated a list of clients from across the UK who had … Read more
A financial director who swindled her own firm out of more than £800,000 to feed an online gambling addiction has been jailed for 32 months. Lauren Farr, 34, conned company We Fight Any Claim based in Cwmbran, Wales, for more than three years while working there as a senior executive. The mother-of-two, of Spring Grove, Cwmbran, … Read more
Police are hunting a ‘dine and dash’ couple who swindled up to a dozen pubs and restaurants by fleeing without paying for meals during a ten-month crime spree. The pair are thought to have claimed their card was declined during their brazen tricks on the beleaguered hospitality venues across East Anglia. They would then leave … Read more
Fraudster, 38, who revealed his business partner’s 12-year extramarital affair to his wife after they fell out then pretended to be a private investigator to swindle her out of over £8,000 is jailed for 15 months William Carter, 38, fell out with Richard Grey over a financial matter in early 2019 He wrote Mr Grey’s … Read more