A millionaire businessman is facing jail after being convicted of selling fake bomb detectors. James McCormick, 56, was found guilty at the Old Bai...
Appearances are deceiving. You can't judge a person's eligibility for sickness benefit by looking at him or her. So don't do it.
Fraud is always a problem. Lying and cheating is wrong and society should certainly discourage it. But benefit fraud - people lying and cheating in order to increase the size of their benefits - is not a big problem. There are many problems which are much bigger, in particular fraud by government.
Fraudsters who pretended to be behind a Hollywood blockbuster were forced to hastily make a film called A Landscape Of Lies on a shoestring budget in ...
If you needed any more convincing that the payday loan sector needs investigating for bad practice, try this; the financial ombudsman has seen complai...
The start of 2013 has heralded many good headlines about the health of fine wine investment and it's looking like a positive year for investors.
A crime gang of fraudsters who lived the life of Riley through a multi-million pound scam on high-street shops have been jailed. Kevin Pomeroy, 47,...
Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has already insisted there is an 'international criminal conspiracy' behind the horse meat scandal and as cases of...
Tesco has asked police to investigate claims that dozens of its customers' Clubcard accounts may have fallen victim to an online fraud. The superma...
The family of the victim of the first ever recorded fatal 'cash-for-crash' accident said they will never recover after four men were jailed over the a...
Following months of denials, the former director of failed retailer JJB Sir David Jones has been formally charged by the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in...
Communication's completed a huge curve of development and returned to a medium that drives brevity and encourages short cuts, leaving little room for chatty content. That said, it's become an art from that's produced some classic tweets that come close to Hemingway's famous, poignant six-word story: "Baby shoes for sale, never worn."
A senior Army officer faces jail after being convicted of defrauding taxpayers of nearly £200,000 to educate his children at a top private school. ...
Despite the public anger surrounding international companies such as Google, Amazon and Starbucks over how much tax they pay in the UK, more members o...
A high-ranking Army officer claimed nearly £220,000 of tax payers' money to send his three children to a top public school, a court has heard. For...
Thousands of British people have fallen victim to a multimillion-pound Indian call centre and internet fraud. Investigators believe the number of B...
A night in a five star hotel in New York followed by a day of frantic shopping in Macys, Bloomingdales, Saks Fifth Avenue, Tiffany & Co, FAO Schwarz, then two first class tickets to Barbados. If you could sum up my dream weekend trip this would be it... except, I'm not in Barbados, I'm in Ireland and the only shopping I did this week was for two bumper packs of nappies in Tesco.
Two men and a woman have been charged with conspiracy to defraud in connection with the investigation into the murder of wealthy former oil executive ...
Today the Wine Investment Association was launched at Mazars, with the publication of its draft Code of Practice to both trade members and press and the commencement of a consultation period to ensure future members and the community can contribute and help shape standards and procedures to provide investors in fine wine with much greater security.
Think about it for a second. A Smartphone is something people carry everywhere and look at more often than their loved ones. It contains increasingly large amounts of personal information about its owner, their families and their financial arrangements.
Banking giant UBS has been fined £29.7 million by the financial services watchdog for its failings which allowed Kweku Adoboli - known as the rogue t...
A rogue trader who lost £1.4 billion in bad deals which nearly brought down a major international bank has been found guilty of fraud, and jailed for...
Police have questioned a man on suspicion of attempting to access the bank accounts of an engineer murdered in the French Alps. Detectives are inve...
A senior police officer who had been suspended over allegations of gross misconduct and fraud has been found dead on a railway line after being hit by...
A would-be MP has been jailed for defrauding students and their families out of more than £20,000. Vincent McKee, 54, was sentenced at Coventry Cr...
