Category Archives: Employment Screening

According to the Portsmouth News website, a Royal Navy sailor faked GCSE certificates, but was caught out because he spelt his own name wrong.

Leading Seaman Ian O’Mahoney claimed he received B and C grades in his English GCSE exams and forged two AQA exam board certificates.

The Leicester Mercury website reports that a manager cheated his new employer out of cash whilst awaiting sentence for defrauding Nuffield Health out of £60,000.

Calvin Holman made fraudulent expense claims from Axa Insurance, despite having a suspended jail sentence for a similar scam with his previous employer.

The Telegraph & Argus website reports that a man stole more than £5,000 from his employer and then claimed the firm was making him a scapegoat for its IT problems.

Jamie Ward started to steal cash he had collected from business transactions, then marked orders as cancelled on the IT system to cover his tracks.

According to the FE News website, a degree fraud service is warning students that sharing photos of graduation certificates on social media drives the multi-million pound trade in fake degrees.

Fraud experts fear a surge in graduation selfies appearing on social media such as Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter as students look for ways to mark their achievement online.

The Yorkshire Live website reports that budding science teacher’s career is over after he used fake documents to get himself a job.

Following concerns about Muhammad Hussain’s teaching methods, school leaders contacted his former employers to check his NQT assessments.

The BBC News website reports that an unqualified teacher has been banned after setting up fake email addresses in a “crudely executed fraud”.

Claudia Malley told her employer that she had become fully qualified and claimed to have received emails from university and Wigan Council to support her claim.