Category Archives: Technology

The Northern Echo website reports that a finance officer transferred nearly £27,000 of clients’ payments into her own bank account over a 13-month period.

Making 62 fraudulent transactions, Gillian Burke then removed evidence of the payments from the company’s computer system.

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.