Bogus savings sites hit record high: City watchdog battles torrent of online fraud By Matt Oliver and Lucy White For The Daily Mail Published: 21:50 BST, 5 May 2021 | Updated: 21:50 BST, 5 May 2021 A record number of financial scams is being uncovered as City regulators battle a torrent of fraud online. A … Read more
African ‘healer’ sells bogus £120 potion recipes online that he claims can REVERSE the ‘effects’ of a Covid vaccine ‘before it kicks in’ EXCLUSIVE: A hoax ‘vaccine reversal herb oil recipe’ is being sold on Fiverr Experts have criticised the recipe for misleading customers on the marketplace Kenyan seller says the oil will ‘enable you … Read more
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
Pension savers and investors are being bombarded with fraudulent online ads on ‘industrial scale’, say financial regulators who called for more money and resources to step up public warning campaigns. Criminals no longer need to produce glossy brochures or set up fake offices as online adverts can be created ‘very easily’, an official told MPs … Read more
Treasury says widespread evasion and avoidance of business rates eating into £25bn a year raised through the tax By Dan Atkinson, Financial Mail on Sunday Published: 21:48 BST, 29 August 2020 | Updated: 21:48 BST, 29 August 2020 Widespread evasion and avoidance of business rates is eating into the £25billion a year raised through the … Read more
A court heard that Sharna Dixon’s ‘persistent and sustained’ 672 emergency and 101 calls left HM Coastguard alone with a staggering bill of £350,000 in just over a year. Her actions led to them being called out to her almost every week, and made up 35 per cent of all responses in that time by … Read more
Bogus accountant who trained in jail stole £186,000 from client then lied about having cancer to cover tracks David Weller set himself up as a tax agent after receiving training from cellmate He stole a total of £186,000 over three years from a building company He told the company he had bowel cancer and needed … Read more
Retail giant Amazon has today come under heavy fire for selling scores of books promoting bogus cancer cures. Cancer experts have today accused the billion-pound company of preying on the vulnerable who are desperate for a remedy. More than 3,000 titles are listed on the site under ‘cancer cures’, including ones endorsing unproven CBD oil … Read more