Category Archives: Online Fraud Detection

The South Wales Argus website reports that a fraudster used Facebook to offload counterfeit designer t-shirts, branded with Moncler, Prada, Hugo Boss and Louis Vuitton.

Alex Parry’s house was raided by council trading standards officers who seized and subsequently destroyed the t-shirts.

The Shropshire Star website reports that a John Lewis stockroom worker who stole more than £45,000 of items and sold them online has been jailed.

Lai Uong worked at John Lewis in Bluewater Shopping Centre for more than 17 years before an internal investigation was launched into missing stock, including laptops and mobile phones.

The Shropshire Star website reports that a private school’s ex-IT boss and his accomplice have been jailed after making nearly £60,000 from fraudulently buying and selling computer equipment.
Over almost five years, Neil Allen used Shrewsbury School’s IT budget to buy iPads from Richard John Leach, which he then sold on eBay and elsewhere.

As reported on the Evening Standard website, a forensics specialist working for the Metropolitan Police has admitted stealing cameras from work to sell on eBay.

A search of Greg Brinklow’s home found three cameras, and subsequent investigation of his online trading account led to sales of three more being uncovered.

According to Mail Online, a Chinese-run website is selling counterfeit designer goods so close to the real thing that only a microscope could reveal they were fakes.

High-quality copies of clothes, bags and shoes from luxury labels including Chanel and Hermes are being sold for less than one per cent of the genuine products’ retail prices.

According to the Cheshire Standard website, an online trader avoided jail despite admitting to selling thousands of fake Apple products.

Andrew Peter Twigg set up a company to sell spare parts and accessories for Apple iPhones and iPads via an eBay store and his own company website.