Category Archives: Online Fraud Detection

According to the Manchester Evening News website, an IT worker stole laptops worth over £67,000 from his employers before selling them online.

]James Bardsley made ‘serial, organised’ thefts whilst working for a recruitment consultancy business for about two years.

The BBC News website reports that an NHS doctor and her husband have been jailed for 10 months each after selling stolen hospital PPE on eBay during the COVID pandemic.

Dr Attiya Sheikh and Omer Sheikh made almost £8,000 from selling the personal protective equipment.

According to the Independent website, Jellycats, the sought-after soft toys are being targeted by criminal shoplifting gangs and thieves.

Garden centres, gift and bookshops up and down the country are facing incidents of shoplifting that has left traders thousands of pounds out of pocket.

According to the Warrington Guardian website, a trusted supervisor at a pump supplier stole stock worth £51,000 and used their packaging and delivery system to sell the goods on eBay.

Ashley McGowan was seen on CCTV footage ‘busying himself’ in the packaging department.

According to the Fashion United website, a recent report has found that Louis Vuitton is the most counterfeited luxury brand.

Prada was the second most counterfeited luxury brand regarding handbags, with 14.42 percent of all Prada bags being flagged as “unidentified,” aka a fake.

According to the Birmingham Live website, a car company’s accounts manager stole nearly £500,000 from her employer, blowing most of it on TikTok tokens.

Katherine Greenall was gifting the tokens to content creators on the social media platform for her own “amusement and entertainment”.