All news on the topic: Fraud

Mohammed Ikram, who served as a councillor for Keighley, West Yorkshire, set up several fake food outlets to claim more than £430k so he could pay off debts

A 48-year-old woman received £182,600 in disability benefits after claiming to be completely blind - but she has now been unmasked by the police and accused of fraud

Dmitry Frolov has been dubbed the 'Russian Tinder Swindler' after claims emerged that he scammed women out of hundreds of thousands of pounds. He has now been arrested

Vicki Ragle and her daughter, Sarah, were scammed as they tried to buy a home in Colorado, US, and were left 'homeless and broke' after losing nearly $200,000 in the fraud

Savers at risk because social media giant fails to tackle the running sore of frauds on its platform

Emmanuel Bay, 68, and Nancy Bay, 67, from Brixton, south London, fraudulently received £1 million in disability benefits between 1999 and 2018 and bought five properties

With the "abundance" of phishing scams currently in circulation looking to steal bank details and other personal information, the number of victims will likely increase

Bank advised customer that a sham website set up by fraudsters to steal from savers was 'genuine'

William Bower, 44, overcharged elderly and vulnerable people looking for landscaping, gardening or property works in the East Midlands area

Gang accused of exploiting company stock market launches to target investors

Accomplished scammer Zholia Alemi posed under a fake degree certificate from the University of Auckland in New Zealand and worked for the NHS for 20 years as an imposter psychiatrist

Margaret managed to steal £50,000 from her own elderly mum after she was put in charge of her financial affairs, being given power of attorney in 2014

Christopher McKillop, fresh out of prison, targeted vulnerable OAPs in a cruel campaign of burglary and fraud, spinning elaborate lies to get access to their homes before stealing cash and bank cards

A fake priest in the US has been accused of swindling millions from local churches so he could splash the cash on 'premium llamas' for one of his 'healing ministry' establishments

Zholia Alemi claimed she graduated from the University of Auckland before working for more than two decades as a practising shrink in the NHS

The crook who once threatened to sue the Mirror for libel is jailed as judge brands him a 'relentless fraudster'.

Cecilie Fjellhøy lost more than £200,000 to fraudster Simon Leviev after he manipulated her into thinking he was in danger - now she's warning others about the perils of sharing passwords in relationships

Mary and her online partner sent each other messages daily and occasionally spoke over the phone, he also sent pictures of himself in different places and with his daughter, so Mary believed he was who he said he was

Consumer rights expert Martyn James runs through the simple money mistakes that we're probably all guilty of having made at least once or twice in our lives... and how to avoid them

The fraudsters try to lure you in by claiming you’re eligible for 30% or more off your bill before sending a text with a one-time passcode and asking you to read it back to them - but don't do this

Fraud victim's dismay as Action Fraud say they are no leads - despite one clear line of enquiry

Eight Brits allegedly cost Majorca hotels £9.5million by convincing tourists to make bogus compensation claims. Laura Joyce and brother Marc Cameron were named as the suspected ringleaders by a court

Fraudsters are creating fake ads for loans and jobs before disappearing with people's money in a surge of advance fee scam cases, with hard-up households most at risk

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) counter fraud regional office in Newcastle has already saved over £2 billion from correction and prevention of fraud and error in the last year

Perry Scott, from Gorleston, Norfolk, had made insurance claims for two small falls from a window-height scaffolding platform which he said left him unable to work and '15% of the person he used to be'