Category Archives: Online Fraud Detection

The Sunderland Echo website reports that a trusted employee used company cash to buy over £40,000 worth of tools and equipment which he sold on to make money for himself.

Robert Iredale had been given authorisation to spend up to £500 at a time on electrical items for his company.

According to the Yorkshire Evening Post, Shamsul Gani stole electronic devices worth over £14.5k from his ex-employer DePuy over a five-year period.

Now working in the NHS, Gani stole the devices because he was upset after claiming promises made about pay and a bonus were not kept.

According to the Cambridgeshire Live website, a Morrisons cashier stole thousands of pounds in vouchers, scanning the barcodes to activate them for his personal use.

Johnny Tucker was filmed on the supermarket’s CCTV sitting at a till for about 40 minutes, in which time he had processed more than £6,600-worth of vouchers.

The Northamptonshire Telegraph website reports that a delivery driver agreed to hand over a high-value pallet of Philips electronics destined for John Lewis to men he owed money for a cocaine debt.

Ray Armer was snared when the items were eventually tracked down to an eBay account connected to his associates.

The Northern Echo website reports that a man who sold stolen items on eBay benefitted from his crimes by £250,503 over a two-year period.

Malcolm Teasdale sold items stolen from lorries and from an electrical goods shop via an eBay account in his daughter’s name.

The Yorkshire Evening Post website reports that the head of IT at Sky Betting in Leeds carried out a fraud worth almost a quarter of a million pounds.

For almost a year, Matt Richmond used the company account to order Apple MacBook Pros from suppliers and then sold them online.