Category Archives: Online Fraud Detection

According to the Linlithgow Gazette, a shop assistant stole £75,000-worth of golf gear from his employer and sold it on eBay.

Ross Ewen made £27,870 selling the designer clothing online at discount prices – and squandered the cash on his gambling habit – getting away with a scam for nearly three years.

The Worcester Observer gives details of Steven Griffiths who worked at DCC Supplies in the city and stole faulty model train parts from the workshop, re-built the models and sold them on eBay.

Griffiths used his daughter’s boyfriend’s information as an alias but his own email address for PayPal.

The Bournemouth Echo reports that a Europcar employee stole car parts worth £80k and sold them for a fraction of their value on eBay.

Paul Cox made an “initial denial” to his employers before admitting just half an hour later: “I was just trying to give my family a better life.”

The Bath Chronicle reports that the boss of a branch of Aga in Bath stole cookware worth almost £22,000 and sold his haul on eBay.

Aga conducted an internal inquiry and found that an eBay account was linked to store manager Timothy White’s PayPal account.

An assistant head teacher stole school text books worth more than £27,000 and sold them on eBay.

Clare Hughes took books from storerooms, classrooms, and even staff members, before selling them online.

A sea cadets volunteer in Northumberland stole a number of kayaks, sails, wetsuits and musical instruments from the organisation and sold them on eBay.

Paul Erskine had got into financial difficulties, and went to steal items worth over £3,000 from the cadets and a neighbouring sports club, which he listed on the online auction site to raise money.