Category Archives: Online Fraud Detection

Four family members, who were convicted of selling counterfeit clothes, have been sentenced for a £1 million tax fraud after an HMRC investigation.

After their conviction, Yasir, Qaisar and Amar Choudry and Mudasar Alishan were also discovered to have failed to declare any earnings.

The Wisbech Standard reports that a personal secretary sold ink cartridges purchased on her company credit card for a profit, using her personal eBay account.

Jessica Prince was suspected of fraud after her company’s accountant received an invoice from an unregistered supplier.

The BBC News website reports that a couple from Norfolk have admitted running fake distance-learning courses which netted them sums of more than £200,000.

Katie Hope and Scott Wolfe duped 900 people into paying for qualifications which did not exist, via their firms International Distance College and the British Nutrition Council.

The Helensburgh Advertiser website reports that a former Royal Marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan sold stolen military equipment on eBay.

Jonathan Parkhill stole food, clothes and military gear, including life-saving gas masks, worth almost £14,000 from stores at HM Naval Base Clyde.

According to the Cornwall Live website, a shop owner in Falmouth believes thousands of pounds worth of goods are being stolen weekly by a ‘professional’ gang of shoplifters who are targeting stores in the town, and describes the police response to the crime wave as “pathetic”.

A gang of security guards stole £200k-worth of iPhones but were caught when they bragged about their crimes online.

Mohammed Miah, Jaleel Khan, Soyfur Rahman and Mohammed Aamar, employed as security guards at a UPS distribution centre, brazenly drove out of the warehouse with boxes of phones.