Category Archives: Online Fraud Detection

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.

According to the Teesside Live website, Martin Wilson, an employee of Turboactive, stole almost £16,000-worth of turbochargers from the company and sold them on eBay.

After receiving an anonymous tip-off, the company owner ordered one of the turbos and immediately recognised it as one of his own.

According to the Public Technology website, fraud perpetrated against the Foreign and Commonwealth Office [FCO] last year amounted to over £130,000 and included an online shopping spree and the unsolved theft of £50,000-worth of expensive antique clocks from its London headquarters.

The Eastern Daily Press website reports that a police employee who sold car parts belonging to the force on eBay was caught out when stolen goods were bought by an undercover officer.

Scott Allcock spent 18 years working for Norfolk Constabulary as a parts officer, admitted to five charges relating to the incidents.

The Grimsby Live website reports that a pre-school group treasurer stole more than £18,400 in a breach of trust to help fund a spiralling gambling problem.

Kathyrn Dennis’s “despicable” fraud saw her pretend that the charitable organisation’s bank account had been repeatedly hacked in a bid to “cover her tracks”.