Category Archives: Technology

The Mail Online website reports that a Thameslink ticket officer hacked the company’s computer system to swindle £277,000.

Mohammed Rahman is said to have used a sophisticated code that ‘tricked’ the computer into thinking it had produced tickets when, in fact, it had not.

As reported on the Lynn News website, a leading fraud expert is warning students against sharing pictures of their certificates online.

Fraudsters can find these images and then use the information on them to create fake certificates that can be bought for as little as £7.

The BBC News website reports that Stevenage FC’s head of academy recruitment diverted more than £15,000 intended for youngsters’ kit to his own bank account, to fund his gambling addiction.

Ian Morris would bill parents for subs and kit and then give them his bank details rather than those of his employer.

According to the Northern Echo website, a heartless accountant stole more than £250,000 from his employer who was busy caring for his terminally-ill wife.

Christopher Sopp had a position of trust, as a Citroen dealership’s financial director, but paid himself large sums which he hid within the company’s accounts.

The Yorkshire Evening Post website reports that the head of IT at Sky Betting in Leeds carried out a fraud worth almost a quarter of a million pounds.

For almost a year, Matt Richmond used the company account to order Apple MacBook Pros from suppliers and then sold them online.

According to the Evening Standard website, a City bank executive splashed out on fast cars, designer watches, and jewellery after swindling his employer out of almost £3 million.

Simon Olver – jailed for four-and-a-half years – was employed as head of finance, accounting, reporting and tax and siphoned corporate ‘tax payments’ into his own account.