Category Archives: Online Fraud Detection

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.

The Daily Mail reports that a Portsmouth man who worked in an Estee Lauder laboratory stole up to 50 items a day during his lunch breaks to supply a couple who were selling stolen make-up and perfumes on ebay in a scam that made them £350,000 in just one year.

A thieving hospital worker ran a mail order business selling stolen NHS medical equipment – and used the hospital post system to despatch the goods to buyers.

Paul Lloyd, 30, set up a company called “Gloves For You” and sold hundreds of boxes of supplies and even his own NHS uniform.

A postman has been jailed for stealing hundreds of packages containing valuables and then making £15,500 by selling them online.

Andrew Barratt, took an estimated 400 items such as satnavs, digital cameras and computer games which his wife, Michelle, then auctioned on ebay

Two crooks ‘obsessed’ with selling thousands of pounds of stolen cosmetics on ebay have been jailed.

Dariusz Suski, 32, and Joanna Lazarska, 33, used the auction website to make more than £350,000 in just over a year from luxury perfume and make-up they got from a network of illicit suppliers across England.