Category Archives: Technology

The Kent Online website reports that a woman set out to ‘destroy’ the publishing company where she worked, by stealing thousands of pounds in a year.

Ruthless Selena Cronin knowingly deleted computer files, shredded documents and even pocketed the petty cash tin on the day she quit.

The Telegraph & Argus website reports that a man stole more than £5,000 from his employer and then claimed the firm was making him a scapegoat for its IT problems.

Jamie Ward started to steal cash he had collected from business transactions, then marked orders as cancelled on the IT system to cover his tracks.

According to the Warrington Guardian website, a couple who defrauded a soft furnishing company they were working for out of £70,000 have been ordered to repay around £40,000.

Carl Hestford and Fiona Kerr stole the money by siphoning company cash to a false PayPal account, but initially denied the fraud.

According to the FE News website, a degree fraud service is warning students that sharing photos of graduation certificates on social media drives the multi-million pound trade in fake degrees.

Fraud experts fear a surge in graduation selfies appearing on social media such as Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter as students look for ways to mark their achievement online.

According to the Independent website, a former senior manager for the NHS has been jailed for defrauding hundreds of thousands of pounds from a hospital trust where he worked.

In a sophisticated fraud, Barry Stannard set up two companies which he used to send hundreds of fake invoices to the hospital, which he would then sign off himself.

The Devon Live website reports that a ‘model worker’ employed by a food company secretly stole £216,000 from the business to feed his gambling addiction.

Richard Jacobs’ fraud hit J&R Food Services so badly that some employees lost their jobs and others could not be paid bonuses.