Category Archives: Online Fraud Detection

According to Pendle Today, a Sainsbury’s supervisor stole almost £2,500 with a refund trick, then bought expensive goods to sell on ebay.

Thomas Grice – who claimed he was in debt due to credit cards and loans – scanned items in the store and put their value on gift cards.

The Daily Record reports that a Managing Director stole goods from his own company – valued at almost £200k – and sold them on ebay.

The owners of Aero Leather Clothing Ltd discovered William Lauder had been selling factory products on the online auction site to the value of £195,000.

According to the Mirror, Fernando Miguel Andrade Viseu, a steward for Ryanair, stole a camera from a passenger and sold it on ebay.

The passenger, Aaron Galloway, got home and went on ebay hoping to find a replacement and was astonished to see his camera for sale with just 33 minutes left on the auction.

The Mirror reports that two former NHS workers who stole dental equipment worth £75,000 which they sold on eBay have been jailed.

Darren Lawson who worked as a storeman for NHS Lothian stole the goods before passing them to hospital site supervisor Gianni Donofrio who traded them on the auction website.

The Cambridge News reports that a debt-ridden postman stole packages on his rounds in Saffron Walden and then sold some of the items on ebay.

Christopher John Caldwell, 44, pocketed up to £3,000 in a period of two-and-a-half years by targeting parcels and selling on ebay the goods he found in them.

According to The Telegraph, a shop assistant who had a job at Russell & Bromley’s flagship store in London’s Oxford Street, stole designer shoes before selling them on ebay.

She walked out with £7,363 of goods before staff spotted the large amount of stock on an ebay account and launched an investigation.