Category Archives: Online Fraud Detection

As reported in The Telegraph, a Royal Marines musician stole £19,000 worth of instruments from his military band and sold them on eBay after he fell heavily into debt.

Adrian Higginson started to steal instruments in March 2015 and took eight saxophones, two clarinets, a cornet, a horn and a Focusrite amplifier, advertising them online under his own name.

According to the Burton Mail, almost £80,000 worth of sat-navs were stolen from Derbyshire car giant Toyota and then sold on eBay by a cleaner.

Juris Jakimjonoks systematically took the systems from the shelves as he walked from the office to the restaurant as part of his cleaning round and admitted he was “motivated by greed”.

SomersetLive reports that a ‘greedy’ teenager stole bikes and biking equipment when he was working for The Bicycle Chain in Bridgwater.

Alex Long started work at the shop in July 2015, and suspicions were raised when the shop’s owner noticed that a bike had gone missing.

According to the Plymouth Herald, a Royal Marine warrant officer stole corps equipment worth almost £67,000 and sold them on eBay, a court was told.

Michael Bath is accused of stealing military property – including military boots and badges – from the Commando Training Centre at Lympstone, in East Devon.

The South Wales Argus reports that a man was jailed for six months for selling counterfeit shirts bearing the logos of football clubs as well as rock and pop bands.

Andrew Jones and his wife, Jayne, sold items from their home via two eBay accounts, generating almost £160,000 in trade over a three-year period.

As reported in the Huddersfield Daily Examiner, an ICT Manager at Shelley College cheated his employer out of thousands of pounds by ordering goods in their name which were later sold on internet sites.

Richard Stewart Boynton was responsible for ordering IT equipment and making sure it was kept secure and documented on the Huddersfield college’s asset register.